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nmod:poss: possessive nominal modifier

nmod:poss is used for a possessive nominal modifier. In English, for example, it is marked with the genitive case clitic ‘s or one of its variant forms.

Marie 's book
nmod:poss(book, Marie)
case(Marie, 's)

nmod:poss must not be confused with the feature Poss=Yes used for possessive pronouns. nmod:poss is only relevant for languages that have a particular construction, such as the possessive construction of English (also called Saxon genitive), that we want to distinguish from other nmod constructions.


nmod:poss in other languages: [ab] [apu] [bej] [bm] [en] [fi] [ga] [hbo] [hy] [id] [jv] [koi] [kpv] [ky] [mdf] [myv] [pcm] [sms] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [vi]