compound: compound
The compound relation is one of three relations for multiword expressions (MWEs) (the other two being fixed and flat). It is used for
- any kind of X0 compounding: noun compounds (e.g., phone book), but also verb and adjective compounds that are more common in other languages (such as Persian or Japanese light verb constructions).
Phone book
compound(book, Phone)
- for particle verbs (with the subtype
compound:prt):
put up
compound:prt(put, up)
- for serial verbs (with the subtype
compound:svc):
Musa bé lá èbi \n Musa came took knife
nsubj(bé, Musa)
compound:svc(bé, lá)
obj(bé, èbi)
The compound relation (nor any subtype thereof) is not used to link an inherently reflexive verb with the reflexive morpheme, despite the similarity of this construction to particle verbs. The current UD guideline is to use an appropriate subtype of the expl relation.
compound 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]