vocative: vocative
We use the vocative relation when the speaker of the sentence calls the addressee by their name or appellation, which depends on the head of the main clause.
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1 爺爺 _ NOUN _ _ 3 vocative _ grandpa
2 ， _ PUNCT _ _ 1 punct _ _
3 是 _ VERB _ _ 0 root _ be
4 不 _ ADV _ _ 5 advmod _ NEG
5 是 _ VERB _ _ 3 conj _ be
6 很 _ ADV _ _ 7 advmod _ very
7 累 _ ADJ _ _ 3 ccomp _ tired
8 ？ _ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ _
1 "Grandpa, _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _
2 you're _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _
3 tired, _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _
4 aren't _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _
5 you?" _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _
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1 你 _ PRON _ _ 2 nsubj _ 2SG
2 放心 _ VERB _ _ 0 root _ rest-assured
3 吧 _ PART _ _ 2 discourse:sp _ SP
4 ， _ PUNCT _ _ 5 punct _ _
5 校長 _ NOUN _ _ 2 vocative _ principal
1 "Rest _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _
2 assured, _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _
3 Principal." _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _
Treebank Statistics (UD_Chinese)
This relation is universal.
1 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.
1 instances of vocative (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.
The following 1 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: zh-pos/VERB-zh-pos/PROPN (1; 100% instances).
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1 莎莉 莎莉 PROPN NNP _ 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No
2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No
3 Sara Sara X FW _ 1 appos _ _
4 Lee Lee X FW _ 3 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No
5 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No
6 是 是 AUX VC _ 13 cop _ SpaceAfter=No
7 一定 一定 ADJ JJ _ 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No
8 數量 數量 NOUN NN _ 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No
9 冷凍 冷凍 NOUN NN _ 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No
10 包裝 包裝 NOUN NN _ 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No
11 食物 食物 NOUN NN _ 13 det _ SpaceAfter=No
12 的 的 PART DEC Case=Gen 11 case:dec _ SpaceAfter=No
13 品牌 品牌 NOUN NN _ 23 dep _ SpaceAfter=No
14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No
15 在 在 VERB VV _ 19 amod _ SpaceAfter=No
16 東南 東南 NOUN NN _ 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No
17 亞 亞 PROPN NNP _ 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No
18 廣告 廣告 NOUN NN _ 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No
19 口號 口號 NOUN NN _ 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No
20 是 是 AUX VC _ 23 cop _ SpaceAfter=No
21 「 「 PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No
22 莎莉 莎莉 PROPN NNP _ 23 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No
23 多謝 多謝 VERB VV _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No
24 您 您 PRON PRP Person=2 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No
25 」 」 PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No
26 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No
vocative 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]