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SCONJ: subordinating conjunction

Definition

A subordinating conjunction is a conjunction that links constructions by making one of them a constituent of the other. The subordinating conjunction typically marks the incorporated constituent which has the status of a (subordinate) clause.

For coordinating conjunctions, see CCONJ.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese)

There are 10 SCONJ lemmas (0%), 10 SCONJ types (0%) and 2114 SCONJ tokens (1%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of SCONJ is: 15 in number of lemmas, 15 in number of types and 13 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent SCONJ lemmas: que, se, porque, embora, pois, caso, como, assim, e, senão

The 10 most frequent SCONJ types: que, se, porque, embora, pois, caso, como, Senão, assim, e

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: que (PRON 2542, SCONJ 1545, ADV 86, NOUN 53, DET 18, PROPN 12, ADP 9, X 1), se (PRON 1380, SCONJ 266, ADP 2), porque (SCONJ 157, ADV 10), embora (SCONJ 59, ADV 3), pois (SCONJ 38, ADV 12, INTJ 1, ADP 1), caso (NOUN 141, SCONJ 23), como (ADP 405, ADV 215, NOUN 29, SCONJ 23), assim (ADV 94, ADP 1, SCONJ 1), e (CCONJ 4061, PROPN 45, ADP 2, SCONJ 1, NOUN 1), senão (ADV 6, ADP 3, SCONJ 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: que (PRON 2536, SCONJ 1537, ADV 86, NOUN 53, DET 15, PROPN 12, ADP 9, X 1), se (PRON 1362, SCONJ 180, ADP 2), porque (SCONJ 143, ADV 7), embora (SCONJ 44, ADV 3), pois (SCONJ 38, ADV 11, ADP 1), caso (NOUN 103, SCONJ 17), como (ADP 386, ADV 189, NOUN 29, SCONJ 9), Senão (ADV 1, SCONJ 1), assim (ADV 71, ADP 1, SCONJ 1), e (CCONJ 3902, PROPN 45, ADP 3, SCONJ 1, NOUN 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of SCONJ is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.425915).

The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “assim”: assim.

The 2nd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “caso”: caso.

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “como”: como.

SCONJ does not occur with any features.

Relations

SCONJ nodes are attached to their parents using 9 different relations: pt-dep/mark (1975; 93% instances), pt-dep/fixed (75; 4% instances), pt-dep/advmod (39; 2% instances), pt-dep/obj (13; 1% instances), pt-dep/dep (5; 0% instances), pt-dep/cc (3; 0% instances), pt-dep/parataxis (2; 0% instances), pt-dep/nsubj (1; 0% instances), pt-dep/root (1; 0% instances)

Parents of SCONJ nodes belong to 12 different parts of speech: VERB (1599; 76% instances), ADJ (202; 10% instances), NOUN (187; 9% instances), ADV (66; 3% instances), PRON (18; 1% instances), ADP (14; 1% instances), PROPN (12; 1% instances), DET (6; 0% instances), NUM (5; 0% instances), SCONJ (3; 0% instances), ROOT (1; 0% instances), SYM (1; 0% instances)

2029 (96%) SCONJ nodes are leaves.

68 (3%) SCONJ nodes have one child.

11 (1%) SCONJ nodes have two children.

6 (0%) SCONJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a SCONJ node is 6.

Children of SCONJ nodes are attached using 11 different relations: pt-dep/punct (35; 30% instances), pt-dep/fixed (32; 27% instances), pt-dep/conj (18; 15% instances), pt-dep/advmod (8; 7% instances), pt-dep/nmod (7; 6% instances), pt-dep/dep (5; 4% instances), pt-dep/xcomp (5; 4% instances), pt-dep/nsubj (3; 3% instances), pt-dep/case (2; 2% instances), pt-dep/advcl (1; 1% instances), pt-dep/discourse (1; 1% instances)

Children of SCONJ nodes belong to 9 different parts of speech: PUNCT (35; 30% instances), NOUN (32; 27% instances), ADV (18; 15% instances), VERB (13; 11% instances), ADJ (7; 6% instances), ADP (7; 6% instances), SCONJ (3; 3% instances), INTJ (1; 1% instances), PRON (1; 1% instances)


SCONJ 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] [ug] [uk] [u] [urj] [ur] [vi] [yue] [zh]