cop: copula
A copula is the relation between a subject complement and a copular verb or copular suffix. We always mark copula as dependent of the subject complement.
In Turkish, the auxiliary verb ol- and in some constructions the negative particle değil act like a free copula. The main means of forming copular constructions, however, is through the bound morpheme -(y), and (infrequently) its clitic form i-. Since the morpheme -(y) consists only of a “buffer” consonant, in some morphological contexts, it is not realized.
Copular morphemes carry features, e.g., Number, Person, that may conflict with the complement they are attached to. Furthermore, the copular suffixes can also attach to verbal nouns, causing conflicting dependency relations besides more feature conflicts. As a result, all copular markers, including the “zero copula” are considered as a separate syntactic tokens.
Güzel olacak . \n (He\/she\/it) will be beautiful
cop(Güzel, olacak)
Güzel idi . (He\/she\/it) was beautiful
cop(Güzel, idi)
Güzel –di . (He\/she\/it) was beautiful
cop(Güzel, –di)
Güzel –im . \n I am beautiful
cop(Güzel, –im)
Güzel –0 . \n He\/she\/it is beautiful (–0 represents the zero morpheme)
cop(Güzel, –0)
When an overt subject is present, it is headed by the subject complement (not the copula).
Kitap güzel –0 . \n The book is nice\/beautiful
cop(güzel, –0)
nsubj(güzel, Kitap)
Kitap güzel olacak . \n The book will be nice\/beautiful
cop(güzel, olacak)
nsubj(güzel, Kitap)
Treebank Statistics (UD_Turkish)
This relation is universal.
681 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as cop.
680 instances of cop (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.12922173274596.
The following 14 pairs of parts of speech are connected with cop: tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/AUX (264; 39% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/AUX (209; 31% instances), tr-pos/PRON-tr-pos/AUX (51; 7% instances), tr-pos/ADV-tr-pos/AUX (44; 6% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/AUX (35; 5% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/VERB (21; 3% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/VERB (18; 3% instances), tr-pos/ADP-tr-pos/AUX (15; 2% instances), tr-pos/PROPN-tr-pos/AUX (8; 1% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/VERB (6; 1% instances), tr-pos/NUM-tr-pos/AUX (4; 1% instances), tr-pos/PRON-tr-pos/VERB (3; 0% instances), tr-pos/NUM-tr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADV-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).
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1 Siz siz PRON Pers Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _
2 sektörde sektör NOUN Noun Case=Loc|Number=Sing|Person=3 5 nmod _ _
3 ki ki ADP Rel _ 2 case _ _
4 tek tek ADJ Adj _ 5 amod _ _
5 antropolog antropolog NOUN Noun Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ _
6 sunuz i AUX Zero Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres 5 cop _ _
7 . . PUNCT Punc _ 5 punct _ _
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1 Oğlunun oğul NOUN Noun Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person=3|Person[psor]=3 4 nmod:poss _ _
2 neden ne PRON Ques Case=Abl|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 obl _ _
3 eroinman eroinman ADJ NAdj Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 obj _ _
4 olduğunu ol VERB Verb Aspect=Perf|Case=Acc|Mood=Ind|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=3|Polarity=Pos|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 obj _ _
5 anlayamaması anla VERB Verb Aspect=Perf|Case=Nom|Mood=Pot|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=3|Polarity=Neg|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Vnoun 7 nsubj _ _
6 çok çok ADV Adverb _ 7 advmod _ _
7 doğal doğal ADJ NAdj Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ _
8 dı i AUX Zero Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past 7 cop _ _
9 . . PUNCT Punc _ 7 punct _ _
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1 - - PUNCT Punc _ 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No
2 ? ne PRON Ques Case=Abl|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ _
3 edenmiş i AUX Zero Aspect=Perf|Evident=Nfh|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past 2 cop _ _
4 o o PRON Demons Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No
5 ? ? PUNCT Punc _ 2 punct _ _
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