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iobj: indirect object

An indirect object is a nominal which corresponds to a dative object.

The iobjrelation is also used for pronouns in prononimal verbs which are indirect objects:

FrenchSpoken also uses the iobj relation for a nominal which corresponds to a dative objects i.e. a nominal that is a core argument of the verb but is not its subject or (direct) object.

In some corpora of the French treebank, when the indirect object is realized with a preposition, it gets analyzed with the obl relation:

However FrenchSpoken does not and uses an obl:comp relation instead:


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

818 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as iobj.

813 instances of iobj (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.65158924205379.

The following 5 pairs of parts of speech are connected with iobj: VERB-PRON (754; 92% instances), NOUN-PRON (37; 5% instances), ADJ-PRON (21; 3% instances), PRON-PRON (5; 1% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_French-ParTUT)

This relation is universal.

54 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as iobj.

52 instances of iobj (96%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.2037037037037.

The following 3 pairs of parts of speech are connected with iobj: VERB-PRON (52; 96% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 2% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 2% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_French-Sequoia)

This relation is universal.

237 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as iobj.

167 instances of iobj (70%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.0042194092827.

The following 6 pairs of parts of speech are connected with iobj: VERB-PRON (185; 78% instances), ADJ-PRON (16; 7% instances), VERB-ADV (15; 6% instances), VERB-ADP (11; 5% instances), NOUN-PRON (8; 3% instances), VERB-NOUN (2; 1% instances).


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