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nsubj: nominal subject

A nominal subject is a NP which is the syntactic subject of a clause; in Russian, the phrase is in the Nominative Case. (See csubj for when the subject is clausal. See nsubjpass and csubjpass for when the subject is not the proto-agent argument due to valence changing operations.) The governor of the nsubj relation might not always be a verb: when the verb is a copular verb, the root of the clause is the complement of the copular verb, which can be an adjective or noun.

Ленинградскую симфонию написал Шостакович . \n Leningrad Symphony wrote Shostakovich .
nsubj(написал, Шостакович)
nsubj(wrote, Shostakovich)
Автомобиль красный . \n Car is-red .
nsubj(красный, Автомобиль)
nsubj(is-red, Car)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of nsubj: nsubj:pass.

4395 nodes (5%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

3530 instances of nsubj (80%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.17815699658703.

The following 45 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/NOUN (2054; 47% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/PROPN (582; 13% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/PRON (557; 13% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/NOUN (386; 9% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/NOUN (216; 5% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/PROPN (211; 5% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/PRON (63; 1% instances), ru-pos/NUM-ru-pos/NOUN (62; 1% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/PRON (35; 1% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/NOUN (34; 1% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/ADV (22; 1% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/PROPN (18; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/DET (18; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADP-ru-pos/NOUN (14; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/ADJ (14; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/ADJ (13; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/NUM (13; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/PROPN (9; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/ADV (8; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADP-ru-pos/PRON (7; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/NOUN (7; 0% instances), ru-pos/SYM-ru-pos/NOUN (7; 0% instances), ru-pos/NUM-ru-pos/PROPN (5; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/NUM (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/VERB (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/NUM (3; 0% instances), ru-pos/NUM-ru-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/SYM (3; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADP-ru-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADP-ru-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADP-ru-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/DET-ru-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/NUM-ru-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/PUNCT-ru-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/PUNCT-ru-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/PART (1; 0% instances).

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1	Жена	ЖЕНА	NOUN	NN	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Дзодзуашвили	ДЗОДЗУАШВИЛИ	PROPN	NNP	Animacy=Anim|Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
3	приходится	ПРИХОДИТЬСЯ	VERB	VBC	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Mid	0	root	_	_
4	тетей	ТЕТЯ	NOUN	NN	Animacy=Anim|Case=Ins|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	3	advmod	_	_
5	жене	ЖЕНА	NOUN	NN	Animacy=Anim|Case=Dat|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	Владимира	ВЛАДИМИР	PROPN	NNP	Animacy=Anim|Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
7	Гуцаева	ГУЦАЕВ	PROPN	NNP	Animacy=Anim|Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Неожиданно	НЕОЖИДАННО	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	появляется	ПОЯВЛЯТЬСЯ	VERB	VBC	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Mid	0	root	_	_
3	Тезей	ТЕЗЕЙ	PROPN	NNP	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Дун	ДУН	PROPN	NNP	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	был	БЫТЬ	AUX	VBC	Aspect=Imp|Gender=Masc|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	захвачен	ЗАХВАТИТЬ	VERB	VBNH	Animacy=Anim|Aspect=Perf|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|Variant=Short|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	якобитами	ЯКОБИТ	NOUN	NN	Animacy=Anim|Case=Ins|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	которые	КОТОРЫЙ	PRON	AWP	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	устроили	УСТРОИТЬ	VERB	VBC	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	в	В	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	замке	ЗАМОК	NOUN	NN	Animacy=Inan|Case=Loc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	тюрьму	ТЮРЬМА	NOUN	NN	Animacy=Inan|Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian-SynTagRus)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of nsubj: nsubj:pass.

71975 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

50954 instances of nsubj (71%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.86278568947551.

The following 106 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/NOUN (31667; 44% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/PRON (14431; 20% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/NOUN (4300; 6% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/PROPN (3834; 5% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/NOUN (2873; 4% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/VERB (2047; 3% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/PRON (1997; 3% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/PRON (1734; 2% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/VERB (1660; 2% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/VERB (1530; 2% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/NOUN (801; 1% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/NOUN (640; 1% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/ADJ (640; 1% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/DET (335; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/PRON (286; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/NUM (269; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/PROPN (245; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/VERB (243; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/ADV (233; 0% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/PRON (228; 0% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/NOUN (215; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/PROPN (211; 0% instances), ru-pos/NUM-ru-pos/NOUN (130; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/ADJ (129; 0% instances), ru-pos/PART-ru-pos/NOUN (119; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/ADJ (108; 0% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/PRON (100; 0% instances), ru-pos/DET-ru-pos/NOUN (98; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/NUM (58; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/ADV (55; 0% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/VERB (51; 0% instances), ru-pos/NUM-ru-pos/PRON (50; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/DET (38; 0% instances), ru-pos/PART-ru-pos/PRON (37; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/NUM (35; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/PROPN (34; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/ADJ (33; 0% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/ADV (29; 0% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/PROPN (28; 0% instances), ru-pos/PUNCT-ru-pos/NOUN (28; 0% instances), ru-pos/DET-ru-pos/PRON (27; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/ADV (26; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/ADV (25; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/DET (25; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADP-ru-pos/NOUN (24; 0% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/PROPN (20; 0% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/ADJ (17; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADP-ru-pos/PRON (14; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/DET (11; 0% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/ADV (11; 0% instances), ru-pos/PUNCT-ru-pos/PRON (11; 0% instances), ru-pos/SCONJ-ru-pos/NOUN (11; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/X (10; 0% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/ADJ (9; 0% instances), ru-pos/PUNCT-ru-pos/PROPN (9; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/PART (9; 0% instances), ru-pos/]()-[ru-pos/NOUN]() (9; 0% instances), [ru-pos/NUM]()-[ru-pos/PROPN]() (8; 0% instances), [ru-pos/-ru-pos/PRON (8; 0% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/NUM (7; 0% instances), ru-pos/CCONJ-ru-pos/NOUN (6; 0% instances), ru-pos/PART-ru-pos/PROPN (6; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/SCONJ (6; 0% instances), ru-pos/PART-ru-pos/VERB (5; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/SCONJ (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/X (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/CCONJ-ru-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/DET-ru-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/X (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/NUM-ru-pos/DET (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/PART-ru-pos/ADJ (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/DET (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/AUX-ru-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), ru-pos/AUX-ru-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/DET (3; 0% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/NUM (3; 0% instances), ru-pos/]()-[ru-pos/PROPN]() (3; 0% instances), [ru-pos/ADP]()-[ru-pos/DET]() (2; 0% instances), [ru-pos/ADV]()-[ru-pos/NUM]() (2; 0% instances), [ru-pos/DET]()-[ru-pos/ADV]() (2; 0% instances), [ru-pos/NUM]()-[ru-pos/VERB]() (2; 0% instances), [ru-pos/PART]()-[ru-pos/NUM]() (2; 0% instances), [ru-pos/PUNCT]()-[ru-pos/VERB]() (2; 0% instances), [ru-pos/ADP]()-[ru-pos/ADJ]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/ADP]()-[ru-pos/ADV]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/AUX]()-[ru-pos/NUM]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/AUX]()-[ru-pos/PROPN]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/AUX]()-[ru-pos/VERB]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/DET]()-[ru-pos/ADJ]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/DET]()-[ru-pos/DET]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/DET]()-[ru-pos/VERB]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/INTJ]()-[ru-pos/PRON]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/NOUN]()-[ru-pos/PART]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/NUM]()-[ru-pos/ADJ]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/NUM]()-[ru-pos/NUM]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/PART]()-[ru-pos/DET]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/PRON]()-[ru-pos/PART]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/PROPN]()-[ru-pos/VERB]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/SCONJ]()-[ru-pos/PRON]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/SCONJ]()-[ru-pos/PROPN]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/SCONJ]()-[ru-pos/VERB]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/SYM]()-[ru-pos/NOUN]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/VERB]()-[ru-pos/INTJ]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/X]()-[ru-pos/NOUN]() (1; 0% instances), [ru-pos/-ru-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/_-ru-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).

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1	Единого	единый	ADJ	_	Case=Gen|Degree=Pos|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	5	amod	5:amod	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	3:punct	SpaceAfter=No
3	истинного	истинный	ADJ	_	Case=Gen|Degree=Pos|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	5	amod	5:amod	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	3:punct	_
5	определения	определение	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	10	nsubj	10:nsubj	_
6	понятия	понятие	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	5	nmod	5:nmod	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	8:punct	SpaceAfter=No
8	алгоритм	алгоритм	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	nmod	6:nmod	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	8:punct	_
10	нет	нет	VERB	_	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	0:root	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	10	punct	10:punct	_

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1	И	и	CCONJ	_	_	6	cc	6:cc	_
2	все	весь	DET	_	Case=Nom|Number=Plur	3	amod	3:amod	_
3	они	они	PRON	_	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3	6	nsubj	6:nsubj	_
4	в	в	ADP	_	_	5	case	5:case	_
5	названии	название	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Loc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	6	obl	6:obl	_
6	имели	иметь	VERB	_	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	0:root	_
7	слово	слово	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	6	obj	6:obj	_
8	algoritmi	algoritmi	X	_	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	7:flat:foreign	_
9	или	или	CCONJ	_	_	10	cc	10:cc	_
10	algorismi	algorismi	X	_	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	8:flat:foreign	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	10	punct	10:punct	_

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1	Алгоритм	алгоритм	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	2:nsubj	_
2	должен	должен	ADJ	_	Degree=Pos|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Variant=Short	0	root	0:root	_
3	быть	быть	AUX	_	Aspect=Imp|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	4	cop	4:cop	_
4	применим	применимый	ADJ	_	Degree=Pos|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Variant=Short	2	nmod	2:nmod	_
5	к	к	ADP	_	_	7	case	7:case	_
6	разным	разный	ADJ	_	Case=Dat|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur	7	amod	7:amod	_
7	наборам	набор	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Dat|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	4	nmod	4:nmod	_
8	исходных	исходный	ADJ	_	Case=Gen|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur	9	amod	9:amod	_
9	данных	данные	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Gen|Number=Plur	7	nmod	7:nmod	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	9:punct	_


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