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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

advcl: adverbial clause modifier

An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.), as a modifier not as a core complement. This includes things such as a temporal clause, consequence, conditional clause, purpose clause, etc. Also comparative constructions are annotated using dependency relation advcl.

Ta jooksis karjudes .
nsubj(jooksis-2, Ta-1)
advcl(jooksis-2, karjudes-3)
punct(jooksis-2, .-4)

He ran shouting.

Mulle pakuti süüa , kui õhtul koolist saabusin .
nmod(pakuti-2, Mulle-1)
xcomp(pakuti-2, süüa-3)
punct(saabusin-8,-4)
sconj(saabusin-8, kui-5)
advmod(saabusin-8, õhtul-6)
nmod(saabusin-8, koolist-7)
advcl(pakuti-2, saabusin-8)
punct(saabusin-8, .-9)

I was offered something to eat, when I arrived from school in the evening


Treebank Statistics (UD_Estonian)

This relation is universal.

689 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

528 instances of advcl (77%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.51814223512337.

The following 27 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: et-pos/VERB-et-pos/VERB (465; 67% instances), et-pos/VERB-et-pos/NOUN (64; 9% instances), et-pos/ADJ-et-pos/VERB (36; 5% instances), et-pos/VERB-et-pos/ADJ (25; 4% instances), et-pos/ADV-et-pos/VERB (18; 3% instances), et-pos/ADJ-et-pos/NOUN (14; 2% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/VERB (12; 2% instances), et-pos/VERB-et-pos/ADV (11; 2% instances), et-pos/VERB-et-pos/PRON (10; 1% instances), et-pos/PRON-et-pos/VERB (4; 1% instances), et-pos/ADJ-et-pos/ADV (3; 0% instances), et-pos/ADV-et-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), et-pos/PROPN-et-pos/VERB (3; 0% instances), et-pos/ADJ-et-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), et-pos/ADV-et-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), et-pos/ADV-et-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), et-pos/VERB-et-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), et-pos/ADV-et-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), et-pos/AUX-et-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), et-pos/AUX-et-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), et-pos/NUM-et-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), et-pos/PRON-et-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), et-pos/PRON-et-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), et-pos/PRON-et-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances).

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1	"	"	PUNCT	Z	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ma	mina	PRON	P	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	usun	uskuma	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	Z	_	7	punct	_	_
5	et	et	SCONJ	J	_	7	mark	_	_
6	ta	tema	PRON	P	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	on	olema	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	3	ccomp	_	_
8	kohe-kohe	kohe-kohe	ADV	D	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	ärkamas	ärkama	VERB	V	Case=Ine|VerbForm=Sup|Voice=Act	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	Z	_	14	punct	_	_
11	kui	kui	SCONJ	J	_	14	mark	_	_
12	mitte	mitte	ADV	D	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	juba	juba	ADV	D	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	ärganud	ärkama	VERB	V	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Act	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	Z	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Tema	tema	PRON	P	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
2	ees	ees	ADP	K	AdpType=Post	1	case	_	_
3	seisis	seisma	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
4	kääbus	kääbus	NOUN	S	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	Z	_	8	punct	_	_
6	seljas	selg	NOUN	S	Case=Ine|Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
7	tilluke	tilluke	ADJ	A	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing	8	amod	_	_
8	raudrüü	raud_rüü	NOUN	S	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	Z	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	See	see	PRON	P	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:cop	_	_
2	oli	olema	AUX	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	3	cop	_	_
3	kummaline	kummaline	ADJ	A	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	Z	_	8	punct	_	_
5	sest	sest	SCONJ	J	_	8	mark	_	_
6	kõik	kõik	PRON	P	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
7	muu	muu	ADJ	P	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	amod	_	_
8	paistis	paistma	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	3	advcl	_	_
9	vägagi	väga	ADV	D	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	selgelt	selgelt	ADV	D	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	Z	_	3	punct	_	_


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