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dobj: direct object

The direct object of a VP is the noun phrase which is the (accusative) object of the verb.

She gave me a raise
dobj(gave, raise)

Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

4805 nodes (5%) are attached to their parents as dobj.

4504 instances of dobj (94%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.05515088449532.

The following 26 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dobj: en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NOUN (3381; 70% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PRON (1125; 23% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/DET (96; 2% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PROPN (85; 2% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADJ (40; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NUM (20; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/VERB (15; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NOUN (9; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/SYM (7; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/INTJ (3; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), en-pos/AUX-en-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), en-pos/CONJ-en-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PART-en-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), en-pos/SCONJ-en-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/X (1; 0% instances).

# visual-style 9	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 9	fgColor:white
# visual-style 7	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 7	fgColor:white
# visual-style 7 9 dobj	color:blue
1	_	_	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	_	_	DET	DT	_	3	det	_	_
3	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	4	nsubj	_	_
4	_	_	VERB	VBD	_	7	advcl	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	7	nsubj	_	_
7	_	_	VERB	VBD	_	0	root	_	_
8	_	_	DET	DT	_	9	det	_	_
9	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	7	dobj	_	_
10	_	_	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	_	_	NOUN	NNS	_	7	nmod	_	_
12	_	_	CONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
13	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	14	nsubj	_	_
14	_	_	VERB	VBD	_	7	conj	_	_
15	_	_	DET	DT	_	16	det	_	_
16	_	_	NOUN	NNS	_	14	dobj	_	_
17	_	_	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	_	_	NOUN	NNS	_	14	nmod	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_

# visual-style 15	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 15	fgColor:white
# visual-style 14	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 14	fgColor:white
# visual-style 14 15 dobj	color:blue
1	_	_	PRON	EX	_	2	expl	_	_
2	_	_	VERB	VBZ	_	0	root	_	_
3	_	_	DET	DT	_	5	det	_	_
4	_	_	ADJ	JJ	_	5	amod	_	_
5	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	2	nsubj	_	_
6	_	_	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	_	_	VERB	VB	_	5	acl	_	_
8	_	_	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	_	_	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	_	_	DET	DT	_	11	det	_	_
11	_	_	NOUN	NNS	_	12	nsubj	_	_
12	_	_	VERB	VBP	_	2	advcl	_	_
13	_	_	PART	RB	_	12	neg	_	_
14	_	_	VERB	VB	_	12	xcomp	_	_
15	_	_	PRON	NN	_	14	dobj	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_

# visual-style 17	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 17	fgColor:white
# visual-style 19	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 19	fgColor:white
# visual-style 19 17 dobj	color:blue
1	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	3	nsubj	_	_
2	_	_	AUX	MD	_	3	aux	_	_
3	_	_	VERB	VB	_	0	root	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	_	_	VERB	VB	_	3	conj	_	_
6	_	_	DET	PRP$	_	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	5	dobj	_	_
8	_	_	CONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
9	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	11	nsubj	_	_
10	_	_	VERB	VBZ	_	11	cop	_	_
11	_	_	ADJ	JJ	_	3	conj	_	_
12	_	_	ADV	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
13	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	14	nsubj	_	_
14	_	_	VERB	VBZ	_	11	advcl	_	_
15	_	_	DET	DT	_	16	det	_	_
16	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	14	dobj	_	_
17	_	_	DET	WDT	_	19	dobj	_	_
18	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	19	nsubj	_	_
19	_	_	VERB	VBD	_	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_


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