acl: clausal modifier of noun
acl stands for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a nominal. A relative clause is an instance of acl, characterized by finiteness and usually omission of the modified noun in the embedded clause. The head of the acl relation is the noun that is modified, and the dependent is the head of the clause that modifies the noun.
- With a synthetic verb:
Hori diote futbolaz dakiten entrenatzaileek .
The coaches who know about football say that .
Hori diote futbolaz dakiten entrenatzaileek . \n That say football_about know_who coaches_the .
dobj(diote-2, Hori-1)
nsubj(diote-2, entrenatzaileek-5)
nmod(dakiten-4, futbolaz-3)
acl(entrenatzaileek-5, dakiten-4)
punct(diote-2, .-6)
- With a compound/periphrastic verb:
Hura da haurraren etorkizuna erabaki dezakeen bakarra .
He/she is the only one who can decide the child’s future .
Hura da haurraren etorkizuna erabaki dezakeen bakarra . \n He/she is child_the_'s future decide can_who the_only_one .
nsubj(bakarra-7, Hura-1)
nmod(etorkizuna-4, haurraren-3)
dobj(erabaki-5, etorkizuna-4)
aux(erabaki-5, dezakeen-6)
acl(bakarra-7, erabaki-5)
cop(bakarra-7, da-2)
punct(bakarra-7, .-8)
Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)
This relation is universal.
915 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as acl.
874 instances of acl (96%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 2.07978142076503.
The following 27 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/VERB (726; 79% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/ADJ (24; 3% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/NOUN (24; 3% instances), eu-pos/DET-eu-pos/VERB (21; 2% instances), eu-pos/ADP-eu-pos/VERB (20; 2% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/VERB (19; 2% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/AUX (13; 1% instances), eu-pos/PROPN-eu-pos/VERB (10; 1% instances), eu-pos/NUM-eu-pos/NOUN (8; 1% instances), eu-pos/NUM-eu-pos/VERB (7; 1% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/VERB (6; 1% instances), eu-pos/ADV-eu-pos/VERB (5; 1% instances), eu-pos/PROPN-eu-pos/ADV (5; 1% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/NUM (3; 0% instances), eu-pos/PROPN-eu-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), eu-pos/PROPN-eu-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), eu-pos/PROPN-eu-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADP-eu-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/DET-eu-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/DET-eu-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/DET-eu-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/PRON-eu-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances).
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1 Bigarren bigarren NUM _ NumType=Ord 2 amod _ _
2 marrazkian marrazki NOUN _ Animacy=Inan|Case=Ine|Definite=Def|Number=Sing 3 obl _ _
3 agertzen agertu VERB _ Aspect=Imp|VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _
4 den izan AUX _ Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=3 3 aux _ _
5 muntaia muntaia NOUN _ Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing 6 obj _ _
6 egizu egin VERB _ Aspect=Prog|Mood=Imp|Number[abs]=Sing|Number[erg]=Plur|Person[abs]=3|Person[erg]=1 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No
7 . . PUNCT _ _ 6 punct _ _
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1 Horregatik horregatik ADV _ _ 2 advmod _ _
2 hasi hasi VERB _ Aspect=Perf|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _
3 zen izan AUX _ Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=3 2 aux _ _
4 bi bi NUM _ NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _
5 aldeentzat alde NOUN _ Animacy=Inan|Case=Ben|Definite=Def|Number=Plur 7 obl _ _
6 onuragarria onuragarri ADJ _ Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing 8 acl _ _
7 zen izan AUX _ Aspect=Prog|Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=3 6 cop _ _
8 harremana harreman NOUN _ Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No
9 . . PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ _
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1 Ugalketa ugalketa NOUN _ Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing 2 obj _ _
2 xede xede NOUN _ Animacy=Inan|Case=Abs|Definite=Ind 4 acl _ _
3 duen ukan AUX _ Aspect=Prog|Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Number[erg]=Sing|Person[abs]=3|Person[erg]=3 2 cop _ _
4 klonazioa klonazio NOUN _ Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing 5 obj _ _
5 debekatzen debekatu VERB _ Aspect=Imp|VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _
6 du *edun AUX _ Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Number[erg]=Sing|Person[abs]=3|Person[erg]=3 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No
7 . . PUNCT _ _ 5 punct _ _
acl 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]