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nmod: nominal modifier

The nmod relation is used for nominal modifiers. They depend either on another noun (group “noun dependents”) or on a predicate (group “non-core dependents of clausal predicates”). They can occur alone or together with an adposition in an adpositional phrase.

Rüütel läks lossi .
nsubj(läks-2, Rüütel-1)
nmod(läks-2, lossi-3)
punct(läks-2, .-4)

Knight went into the castle.

Rüütel läks lossi juurde .
nsubj(läks-2, Rüütel-1)
nmod(läks-2, lossi-3)
case(lossi-3, juurde-4)
punct(läks-2, .-5)

Knight went near the castle.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Estonian)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:poss.

1607 nodes (5%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

1360 instances of nmod (85%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.42003733665215.

The following 23 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/NOUN (821; 51% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/PROPN (280; 17% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/PRON (231; 14% instances), et-pos/PROPN-et-pos/NOUN (140; 9% instances), et-pos/PRON-et-pos/PRON (33; 2% instances), et-pos/PROPN-et-pos/PROPN (29; 2% instances), et-pos/NUM-et-pos/NOUN (20; 1% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/ADV (10; 1% instances), et-pos/PRON-et-pos/NOUN (9; 1% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/ADJ (7; 0% instances), et-pos/NUM-et-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), et-pos/NUM-et-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), et-pos/PROPN-et-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/X (3; 0% instances), et-pos/VERB-et-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), et-pos/PRON-et-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), et-pos/ADJ-et-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), et-pos/ADP-et-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), et-pos/NOUN-et-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances), et-pos/PRON-et-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), et-pos/PROPN-et-pos/X (1; 0% instances).

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1	Hullud	hull	ADJ	A	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur	2	amod	_	_
2	ideed	idee	NOUN	S	Case=Nom|Number=Plur	6	nsubj:cop	_	_
3	olid	olema	AUX	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	6	cop	_	_
4	selle	see	PRON	P	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	rahva	rahvas	NOUN	S	Case=Gen|Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
6	stiihia	stiihia	NOUN	S	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	Z	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	Nii	nii	ADV	D	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	see	see	PRON	P	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	Eesti	Eesti	PROPN	S	Case=Gen|Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
4	elu	elu	NOUN	S	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	käis	käima	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
6	...	...	PUNCT	Z	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	Sinu	sina	PRON	P	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
2	jaoks	jaoks	ADP	K	AdpType=Post	1	case	_	_
3	hea	hea	NOUN	S	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	Z	_	3	punct	_	_


nmod in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cs] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fo] [fr] [ga] [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]