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expl: expletive

This relation captures an existential there or it in extraposition constructions. There is further discussion and examples on the universal dependency page (expl).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

732 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as expl.

659 instances of expl (90%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.51366120218579.

The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: VERB-PRON (550; 75% instances), ADJ-PRON (134; 18% instances), NOUN-PRON (35; 5% instances), VERB-ADV (6; 1% instances), PROPN-PRON (4; 1% instances), AUX-PRON (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

541 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as expl.

525 instances of expl (97%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.88539741219963.

The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: VERB-PRON (341; 63% instances), ADJ-PRON (137; 25% instances), NOUN-PRON (58; 11% instances), PRON-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

274 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as expl.

264 instances of expl (96%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.64233576642336.

The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: VERB-PRON (201; 73% instances), NOUN-PRON (32; 12% instances), ADJ-PRON (20; 7% instances), AUX-PRON (10; 4% instances), PRON-PRON (4; 1% instances), PROPN-PRON (2; 1% instances), VERB-ADV (2; 1% instances), ADV-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PRON (1; 0% instances).


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