acl: clausal modifier of noun (adnominal clause)
acl stands for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a nominal. The acl relation
contrasts with the advcl relation, which is used for adverbial clauses
that modify a predicate. The head of the acl relation is the noun
that is modified, and the dependent is the head of the clause that
modifies the noun.
the issues as he sees them
acl(issues, sees)
There are many online sites offering booking facilities .
acl(sites, offering)
I have a parakeet named cookie .
acl(parakeet, named)
A president certain that they are correct is dangerous .
acl(president, certain)
ccomp(certain, correct)
nsubj(dangerous, president)
I just want a simple way to get my discount .
acl(way, get)
Cette affaire à suivre \n This case to follow
acl(affaire, suivre)
A relative clause is an instance of acl, characterized by finiteness and usually omission of
the modified noun in the embedded clause. Some languages use a language-particular subtype acl:relcl for the traditional class of relative clauses.
I saw the man you love
acl:relcl(man, love)
Some languages allow finite clausal complements for nouns with
a subset of nouns like fact or report. These look roughly like relative clauses, but do not have any omitted role in the dependent clause. This is the class of “content clauses” in Huddleston and Pullum 2002). These are also analyzed as acl.
the fact that nobody cares
acl(fact, cares)
This relation is no longer used for optional depictives: advcl should be used instead.
acl in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fi] [fr] [fro] [ga] [gsw] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [ky] [ml] [no] [pa] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [ssp] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]