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iobj: indirect object

The indirect object of a verb is any nominal phrase that is a core argument of the verb but is not its subject or direct object. A prototypical example is the recipient of ditransitive verbs of speaking:

Говореше на всички като началник . \n Spoke-he to everybody like a-boss .
iobj(Говореше, всички)
iobj(Spoke-he, everybody)

The other examples include all arguments of a head that are not direct objects or subjects, and are PPs introduced by various prepositions. These cases are handled in the valency dictionary:

Ще те питам за нещо . \n Will you ask-I for something .
iobj(питам, нещо)
iobj(ask-I, something)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Bulgarian)

This relation is universal.

3216 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as iobj.

2602 instances of iobj (81%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.62344527363184.

The following 15 pairs of parts of speech are connected with iobj: bg-pos/VERB-bg-pos/NOUN (2204; 69% instances), bg-pos/VERB-bg-pos/PRON (630; 20% instances), bg-pos/VERB-bg-pos/PROPN (216; 7% instances), bg-pos/VERB-bg-pos/ADJ (54; 2% instances), bg-pos/VERB-bg-pos/DET (36; 1% instances), bg-pos/VERB-bg-pos/NUM (18; 1% instances), bg-pos/ADJ-bg-pos/PRON (16; 0% instances), bg-pos/NOUN-bg-pos/PRON (13; 0% instances), bg-pos/ADV-bg-pos/PRON (8; 0% instances), bg-pos/ADJ-bg-pos/NOUN (6; 0% instances), bg-pos/VERB-bg-pos/ADP (5; 0% instances), bg-pos/VERB-bg-pos/ADV (5; 0% instances), bg-pos/DET-bg-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), bg-pos/PRON-bg-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), bg-pos/NOUN-bg-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances).

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1	На	на	ADP	R	_	2	case	_	_
2	заека	заек	NOUN	Ncmsh	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
3	му	аз	PRON	Ppetds3m	Case=Dat|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
4	омръзна	омръзне-ми	VERB	Vnpif-o3s	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
5	да	да	AUX	Tx	_	6	aux	_	_
6	студува	студувам	VERB	Vpiif-r3s	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	4	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	punct	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	Не	не	PART	Tn	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	помня	помня	VERB	Vpitf-r1s	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
3	да	да	AUX	Tx	_	5	aux	_	_
4	съм	съм	AUX	Vxitf-r1s	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	5	aux	_	_
5	ходил	ходя-(си)	VERB	Vpitcao-smi	Aspect=Imp|Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Act	2	ccomp	_	_
6	у	у	ADP	R	_	7	case	_	_
7	тях	аз	PRON	Ppelap3	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	punct	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	След	след	ADP	R	_	2	case	_	_
2	седмица	седмица	NOUN	Ncfsi	Definite=Ind|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	отиде	отида-(си)	VERB	Vppif-o3s	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
4	у	у	ADP	R	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ганини	ганини	PROPN	H-pi	Definite=Ind|Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	punct	_	3	punct	_	_


iobj in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cs] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fo] [fr] [gl] [got] [grc] [he] [hi] [hr] [hu] [id] [it] [ja] [kk] [kmr] [ko] [la] [lv] [mr] [nl] [no] [pl] [pt] [ro] [ru] [sa] [sk] [sla] [sl] [so] [sr] [sv] [swl] [ta] [tr] [u] [ug] [uk] [ur] [urj] [vi] [yue] [zh]