vocative: vocative
The vocative relation is used to mark a dialogue participant addressed in text (common in conversations, emails and newsgroup postings). The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence.
Examples:
Slán leat , a chara `Goodbye , friend’
Slán leat , a chara \n Goodbye with_you, [] friend
vocative(Slán, chara)
Is dóigh liom a Mháiréad, go bhfuil mé i ngrá leat `I think Mairead, that I’m in love with you’
Is dóigh liom a Mháiréad , go bhfuil mé i ngrá leat \n Is belief with_me [] Mairead , that am I in love with_you
vocative(dóigh, Mháiréad)
Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)
This relation is universal.
10 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.
7 instances of vocative (70%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 6.2.
The following 4 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: ga-pos/NOUN-ga-pos/PROPN (4; 40% instances), ga-pos/VERB-ga-pos/NOUN (3; 30% instances), ga-pos/VERB-ga-pos/PROPN (2; 20% instances), ga-pos/PROPN-ga-pos/NOUN (1; 10% instances).
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1 ' ' PUNCT Punct _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No
2 Slán slán NOUN Noun Case=NomAcc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ _
3 leat le ADP Prep Number=Sing|Person=2 2 obl:prep _ SpaceAfter=No
4 , , PUNCT Punct _ 2 punct _ _
5 a a PART Voc PartType=Voc 6 case:voc _ _
6 Dhoráid Dhoráid PROPN Noun Case=Voc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No
7 ! ! PUNCT ! _ 2 punct _ _
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1 ( ( PUNCT Punct _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No
2 Ag ag ADP Simp _ 3 case _ _
3 béicíl béicíl NOUN Noun VerbForm=Vnoun 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No
4 ) ) PUNCT Punct _ 3 punct _ _
5 Téigh téigh VERB VTI Mood=Imp|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ _
6 abhaile abhaile ADV Dir _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No
7 , , PUNCT Punct _ 8 punct _ _
8 a a PART Voc PartType=Voc 9 case:voc _ _
9 bhithiúnaigh bithiúnach NOUN Noun Case=Voc|Form=Len|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No
10 ! ! PUNCT ! _ 5 punct _ _
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1 Faisean faisean NOUN Noun Case=NomAcc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ _
2 le le ADP Simp _ 3 case _ _
3 Úna Úna PROPN Noun Case=NomAcc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _
4 Ní ní PART Pat PartType=Pat 3 flat:name _ _
5 Bhrannagáin Bhrannagáin PROPN Noun Case=NomAcc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 flat:name _ _
6 Ná ná PART Vb Mood=Imp|PartType=Vb 7 mark:prt _ _
7 híocaigí híoc VERB Imper Mood=Imp|Number=Plur|Person=2 1 ccomp _ _
8 na na DET Art Definite=Def|Number=Plur|PronType=Art 9 det _ _
9 táillí táille NOUN Noun Case=NomAcc|Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 7 obj _ _
10 - - PUNCT Punct _ 11 punct _ _
11 Fahey Fahey PROPN Noun Case=NomAcc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 vocative _ _
12 Brú Brú PROPN Noun Case=NomAcc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _
13 Tráchta trácht NOUN Noun Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 12 compound _ _
14 i i ADP Simp _ 15 case _ _
15 Maigh Maigh PROPN Noun Case=NomAcc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _
16 Eo Eo PROPN Noun _ 15 flat _ SpaceAfter=No
17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _
vocative 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]