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obj: object

The object of a verb is the the second most core argument of a verb after the subject. Most often it is a direct object is in the accusative case, a noun phrase that denotes the entity acted upon. However, in Russian there are many verbs that require their objects be in other cases (except for nominative and vocative).

Accusative example:

Я купил машину . \n I have-bought car .
obj(купил, машину)
obj(have-bought, car)

Genitive example:

Я не боюсь этого . \n I-am not afraid of this .
obj(боюсь, этого)
obj(afraid, this)

Dative example:

Но это не соответствует действительности . \n But this not corresponds to-reality .
obj(соответствует, действительности)
obj(corresponds, to-reality)

Instrumental example:

Президент руководит страной . \n The President rules the country .
obj(руководит, страной)
obj(rules, country)

In general, if there is only one object, it should be labeled obj, regardless of the morphological case or semantic role that it bears. If there are two or more objects, one of them should be obj and the others should be iobj. In such cases it is necessary to decide what is the most directly affected object (patient). The one exception is when there is a clausal complement: then the clausal complement is regarded as a “clausal object” and an object nominal will be an iobj.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian)

This relation is universal.

2318 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as obj.

2027 instances of obj (87%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.07851596203624.

The following 26 pairs of parts of speech are connected with obj: ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/NOUN (1936; 84% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/PRON (183; 8% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/PROPN (101; 4% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/ADJ (17; 1% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/NUM (14; 1% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/ADV (10; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/NOUN (9; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/SYM (8; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/NOUN (7; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/DET (7; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/VERB (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADP-ru-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADP-ru-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/AUX-ru-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/NUM-ru-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/PUNCT-ru-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/SYM-ru-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances).

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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	_	_

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1	Они	ОНИ	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3	2	nsubj	_	_
2	вели	ВЕСТИ	VERB	VBC	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	себя	СЕБЯ	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	словно	СЛОВНО	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	оба	ОБА	NUM	CD	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
7	не	НЕ	PART	NEG	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	ожидали	ОЖИДАТЬ	VERB	VBC	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	встретить	ВСТРЕТИТЬ	VERB	VB	Aspect=Perf|VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
10	друг	ДРУГ	NOUN	NN	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	друга	ДРУГ	NOUN	NN	Animacy=Anim|Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Барыкина	БАРЫКИН	PROPN	NNP	Animacy=Anim|Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
2	иногда	ИНОГДА	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	называют	НАЗЫВАТЬ	VERB	VBC	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	``	``	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	отцом	ОТЕЦ	NOUN	NN	Animacy=Anim|Case=Ins|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	advmod	_	_
6	русского	РУССКИЙ	ADJ	JJL	Animacy=Inan|Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	7	amod	_	_
7	регги	РЕГГИ	NOUN	NN	Animacy=Inan|Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	''	''	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian-SynTagRus)

This relation is universal.

30426 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as obj.

24271 instances of obj (80%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.06721225267863.

The following 31 pairs of parts of speech are connected with obj: ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/NOUN (23971; 79% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/PRON (4983; 16% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/PROPN (827; 3% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/ADJ (301; 1% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/DET (104; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/NOUN (60; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/NOUN (50; 0% instances), ru-pos/PUNCT-ru-pos/NOUN (25; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/PRON (16; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/NOUN (15; 0% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/PRON (10; 0% instances), ru-pos/_-ru-pos/NOUN (8; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/ADJ (7; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/PROPN (7; 0% instances), ru-pos/SCONJ-ru-pos/NOUN (6; 0% instances), ru-pos/PART-ru-pos/NOUN (5; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/PART-ru-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV-ru-pos/DET (3; 0% instances), ru-pos/CCONJ-ru-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), ru-pos/PRON-ru-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADP-ru-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), ru-pos/CCONJ-ru-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), ru-pos/PUNCT-ru-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/DET-ru-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/PROPN-ru-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances).

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1	Разумеется	разумеется	ADV	_	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	7:parataxis	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	1:punct	_
3	эти	этот	DET	_	Case=Acc|Number=Plur	4	amod	4:amod	_
4	объяснения	объяснение	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Plur	8	obj	8:obj	_
5	вряд	вряд	ADV	_	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	7:advmod	_
6	ли	ли	PART	_	_	5	fixed	5:fixed	_
7	можно	можно	ADV	_	Degree=Pos	0	root	0:root	_
8	счесть	считать	VERB	_	Aspect=Perf|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	7	nsubj	7:nsubj	_
9	убедительными	убедительный	ADJ	_	Case=Ins|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur	8	obl	8:obl	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	9:punct	_

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1	Это	это	PRON	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	3	obj	3:obj	_
2	чутко	чутко	ADV	_	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	3:advmod	_
3	фиксируют	фиксировать	VERB	_	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	0:root	_
4	энциклопедические	энциклопедический	ADJ	_	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur	5	amod	5:amod	_
5	издания	издание	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Plur	3	nsubj	3:nsubj	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	5	punct	5:punct	_

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1	Не	не	PART	_	_	3	advmod	3:advmod	_
2	будем	быть	AUX	_	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	3	aux	3:aux	_
3	копировать	копировать	VERB	_	Aspect=Imp|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	0	root	0:root	_
4	американский	американский	ADJ	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Acc|Degree=Pos|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	amod	6:amod	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	6:punct	SpaceAfter=No
6	Шаттл	шаттл	PROPN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	obj	3:obj	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	6:punct	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	6:punct	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	6:punct	_


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