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Treebank Statistics: UD_English-GUM: Relations: vocative

This relation is universal.

114 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.

64 instances of vocative (56%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.78070175438596.

The following 20 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: VERB-PROPN (37; 32% instances), VERB-NOUN (21; 18% instances), NOUN-PROPN (11; 10% instances), VERB-PRON (6; 5% instances), NOUN-NOUN (5; 4% instances), ADJ-NOUN (4; 4% instances), ADJ-PROPN (4; 4% instances), ADV-NOUN (4; 4% instances), ADV-PROPN (3; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (3; 3% instances), PROPN-PROPN (3; 3% instances), INTJ-NOUN (2; 2% instances), INTJ-PRON (2; 2% instances), INTJ-PROPN (2; 2% instances), PRON-NOUN (2; 2% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 1% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (1; 1% instances), X-PROPN (1; 1% instances).

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1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	4:obj	Discourse=topic-question:1->2:1:lex-indwd-1+syn-sbinv-2+grf-qst-6|XML=<w>
2	'd	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	4:aux	XML=</w>
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	4:nsubj	Entity=(1-person-acc:com-cf1-1-ana)
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	0:root	Cxn=Interrogative-Wh
5	Sabrina	Sabrina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	4:vocative	Entity=(1-person-giv:act-cf1-1-coref)|SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	4:punct	_

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1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	2:nsubj	Discourse=restatement-repetition_m:146->142:2:ref-prs-683-690,702+sem-synym-685-690,704-707+sem-lxchn-688,705|Entity=(5-person-giv:inact-cf1-1-ana)
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	0:root	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	4:amod	Entity=(62-person-giv:inact-cf2-4-coref
4	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	2:obj	MSeg=arm-ie-s|SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	6:punct	_
6	buddy	buddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	2:vocative	Entity=(2-person-giv:inact-cf3-1-coref)62)|MSeg=budd-y|SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	2:punct	_

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1	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	0:root	Discourse=joint-other_m:142->140:0:_|MSeg=Thank-s
2	Judy	Judy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	1:vocative	Entity=(2-person-giv:inact-cf1-1-coref)|SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	1:punct	_