Case: case
In English, the Case feature is only used for some personal pronouns. Pronouns can be either in the direct or oblique case.
Nom: direct
The following pronouns are in the direct case:
- I, you, he, she, it, we, they
Acc: oblique
The following pronouns are in the oblique case:
- me, you, him, her, it, us, them, myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
Note that you and it can be either in the direct or oblique case. If they appear in subject
position, they are marked as Nom, while if they appear in object position or if they have a prepositional
case marker, they are marked as Acc.
Reflexive pronouns only have this feature if they are used in object position and not if they are used as intensive pronouns.
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 2 different values: Acc, Nom.
14945 tokens (6%) have a non-empty value of Case.
43 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case.
16 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case.
The feature is used with 1 part-of-speech tags: en-pos/PRON (14945; 6% instances).
PRON
14945 en-pos/PRON tokens (67% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Case co-occurred: Poss=EMPTY (14945; 100%), PronType=Prs (14945; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (10947; 73%), Number=Sing (9104; 61%).
PRON tokens may have the following values of Case:
Acc(3171; 21% of non-emptyCase): me, it, you, them, him, us, her, yourself, myself, themselvesNom(11774; 79% of non-emptyCase): i, you, it, they, we, he, sheEMPTY(7332): my, that, your, this, what, their, there, his, our, who
| Paradigm I | Nom | Acc |
|---|---|---|
| I | me |
Relations with Agreement in Case
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Case:
PRON –[conj]–> PRON (20; 87%).
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