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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.), as a modifier not as a core complement. This includes things such as a temporal clause, consequence, conditional clause, purpose clause, etc. The dependent must be clausal (or else it is an advmod) and the dependent is the main predicate of the clause.

Na Vila, quando recebo a bola, tenho que ficar olhando sua trajetória, para não ser surpreendido.

advcl(recebo, olhando)  (temporal clause)
advcl(surpreendido, olhando)  (purpose clause)
Eles tiveram que fazer isso se os escravos fossem superiores em qualidades que os próprios brancos valorizavam, onde estaria a justificativa moral para mantê-los escravizados?

advcl(superiores, tiveram) (conditional clause)

Note in the example above, that the advcl relation holds between an ADJ and a VERB, since the head of the adverbial clause (“se os escravos fossem superiores em qualidades que os próprios brancos valoriavam”) is “superiores”, as the verb to be (“fossem”) holds a cop relation and therefore it is not the head (the main predicate) of the clause.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese)

This relation is universal.

2338 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

1831 instances of advcl (78%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 8.90889649272883.

The following 24 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/VERB (1736; 74% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/VERB (220; 9% instances), pt-pos/ADV-pt-pos/VERB (133; 6% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/VERB (102; 4% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/ADJ (34; 1% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/NOUN (34; 1% instances), pt-pos/PRON-pt-pos/VERB (21; 1% instances), pt-pos/NUM-pt-pos/VERB (12; 1% instances), pt-pos/PROPN-pt-pos/VERB (8; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/ADJ (7; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/NOUN (6; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/PRON (5; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/PROPN (5; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/SYM-pt-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADV-pt-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/DET-pt-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/INTJ-pt-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/PRON-pt-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/SCONJ-pt-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances).

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1	PF	PF	PROPN	PROP|F|S|@SUBJ>	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	prende	prender	VERB	<mv>|V|PR|3S|IND|@FS-STA	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dois	dois	NUM	<card>|NUM|M|P|@<ACC	NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	por	por	ADP	PRP|@<ADVL	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cobrar	cobrar	VERB	<mv>|V|INF|@ICL-P<	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	ágio	ágio	NOUN	<np-idf>|N|M|S|@<ACC	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_

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1	Se	se	SCONJ	KS|@SUB	_	2	mark	_	_
2	reagir	reagir	VERB	<mv>|V|FUT|3S|SUBJ|@FS-ADVL>	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
3	é	ser	AUX	<mv>|V|PR|3S|IND|@FS-STA	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	interessante	interessante	ADJ	ADJ|M|S|@<SC	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	porque	porque	SCONJ	KS|@SUB	_	6	mark	_	_
6	mostrará	mostrar	VERB	<mv>|V|FUT|3S|IND|@FS-<ADVL	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
7	que	que	SCONJ	KS|@SUB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	está	estar	AUX	<mv>|V|PR|3S|IND|@FS-<ACC	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	vivo	vivo	ADJ	ADJ|M|S|@<SC	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	PU|@PU	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	PU|@PU	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	É	ser	AUX	<mv>|V|PR|3S|IND|@FS-STA	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	assim	assim	ADV	<kc>|ADV|@<SC	_	0	root	_	_
3	a	o	DET	<artd>|ART|F|S|@>N	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	transparência	transparência	NOUN	<np-def>|N|F|S|@<SUBJ	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	ADP	<sam->|PRP|@N<	_	7	case	_	_
6	o	o	DET	<-sam>|<artd>|ART|M|S|@>N	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Partido	Partido	PROPN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	MWE=Partido_Popular|MWEPOS=PROPN
8	Popular	Popular	PROPN	_	Number=Sing	7	flat:name	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	PU|@PU	_	10	punct	_	_
10	feita	fazer	VERB	<mv>|V|PCP|F|S|@ICL-A<	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	de	de	ADP	PRP|@<PIV	_	12	case	_	_
12	recados	recado	NOUN	<np-idf>|N|M|P|@P<	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	PU|@PU	_	2	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-BR)

This relation is universal.

2219 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

1605 instances of advcl (72%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 9.36277602523659.

The following 20 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/VERB (2005; 90% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/VERB (95; 4% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/NOUN (48; 2% instances), pt-pos/PRON-pt-pos/VERB (24; 1% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/PRON (10; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/NOUN (9; 0% instances), pt-pos/PROPN-pt-pos/VERB (7; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/VERB (5; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADV-pt-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/NUM-pt-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/NUM-pt-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/PART-pt-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/PRON-pt-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/PROPN-pt-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/PROPN-pt-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/PART (1; 0% instances).

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1	"	_	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Não	_	ADV	ADV	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	podemos	_	AUX	AUX	_	4	aux	_	_
4	fazer	_	VERB	VERB	_	0	root	_	_
5	outra	_	DET	DET	_	6	det	_	_
6	coisa	_	NOUN	NOUN	_	4	obj	_	_
7	que	_	CCONJ	CONJ	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sair	_	VERB	VERB	_	4	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	ADP	ADP	_	11	case	_	_
10	as	o	DET	DET	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ruas	_	NOUN	NOUN	_	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	_	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	Eu	_	PRON	PRON	_	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brinco	_	NOUN	NOUN	_	0	root	_	_
3	que	_	CCONJ	CONJ	_	4	mark	_	_
4	sou	_	VERB	VERB	_	2	ccomp	_	_
5	amador	_	ADJ	ADJ	_	4	xcomp:adj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	_	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
7	porque	_	CCONJ	CONJ	_	8	mark	_	_
8	amo	_	VERB	VERB	_	2	advcl	_	_
9	o	_	PRON	PRON	_	8	obj	_	_
10	que	_	PRON	PRON	_	12	obj	_	_
11	eu	_	PRON	PRON	_	12	nsubj	_	_
12	faço	_	VERB	VERB	_	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	_	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Quando	_	CCONJ	CONJ	_	4	mark	_	_
2	eu	_	PRON	PRON	_	4	nsubj	_	_
3	for	_	VERB	VERB	_	4	cop	_	_
4	mãe	_	NOUN	NOUN	_	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	_	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	quero	_	VERB	VERB	_	0	root	_	_
7	ser	_	VERB	VERB	_	6	xcomp	_	_
8	presente	_	ADJ	ADJ	_	7	xcomp:adj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	_	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
10	acompanhar	_	VERB	VERB	_	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	_	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
12	participar	_	VERB	VERB	_	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	_	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_


advcl 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]