Treebank Statistics: UD_English-GUM: Relations: vocative
This relation is universal.
152 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative
.
83 instances of vocative
(55%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 3.97368421052632.
The following 21 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative
: VERB-PROPN (52; 34% instances), VERB-NOUN (28; 18% instances), NOUN-PROPN (17; 11% instances), NOUN-NOUN (8; 5% instances), VERB-PRON (6; 4% instances), ADJ-NOUN (5; 3% instances), ADJ-PROPN (5; 3% instances), ADV-NOUN (4; 3% instances), ADV-PROPN (4; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (4; 3% instances), INTJ-PROPN (3; 2% instances), PRON-NOUN (3; 2% instances), PROPN-PROPN (3; 2% instances), INTJ-NOUN (2; 1% instances), INTJ-PRON (2; 1% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 1% instances), AUX-PROPN (1; 1% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (1; 1% instances), X-PROPN (1; 1% instances).