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vocative: vocative

The vocative relation is used to mark dialogue participant addressed in text (common in conversations, emails and newsgroup postings). The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence.

Ganix, etorri !

Ganix, come !

Ganix, etorri! \n Ganix, come!

vocative(etorri-3, Ganix-1)
punct(etorri-3, ,-2)
punct(etorri-3, !-4)

Nora zoaz, Kurt ?

Where are you going, Kurt ?

Nora zoaz, Kurt ? \n Where you_are_going, Kurt ?

vocative(zoaz-2, Kurt-4)
punct(zoaz-2, ,-3)
advmod(zoaz-2, Nora-1)
punct(zoaz-2, ?-5)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

33 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.

23 instances of vocative (70%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.21212121212121.

The following 3 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/PROPN (18; 55% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/NOUN (14; 42% instances), eu-pos/AUX-eu-pos/PROPN (1; 3% instances).

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1	-	-	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Zer	zer	DET	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Ind	3	obj	_	_
3	gertatzen	gertatu	VERB	_	Aspect=Imp|VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	zaizu	izan	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Number[dat]=Sing|Person[abs]=3|Person[dat]=2	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Ganix	Ganix	PROPN	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Ez	ez	PART	_	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	_	_
3	ez	ez	PART	_	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	naiz	izan	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=1	6	aux	_	_
5	bakarrik	bakarrik	ADV	_	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	egoiten	egon	VERB	_	Aspect=Imp|VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	e	e	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	Angramain	Angramain	PROPN	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_
3	galtzaile	galtzaile	ADJ	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Ind	0	root	_	_
4	zara	izan	AUX	_	Aspect=Prog|Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=2	3	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bete	bete	VERB	_	VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	zeure	zeu	PRON	_	Case=Gen|Definite=Def|Number=Sing|Person=2	8	nmod	_	_
8	hitza	hitz	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	10	punct	_	_
10	itzul	itzuli	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	herria	herri	NOUN	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	13	punct	_	_
13	zoaz	joan	VERB	_	Aspect=Prog|Mood=Imp|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=2	4	conj	_	_
14	kanpora	kanpo	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=All|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_


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