The indirect object (iobj) of a verb is any nominal phrase that is a core argument of the verb but is not its subject or direct object. As Basque is a language that distinguishes morphological cases, the indirect object is marked by the dative case.
Ikasleei esan zien arratsaldean ikasi behar zutela .
(He/she told the students that they needed to study in the evening .
Djukanovicek aldaketa handia eman dio bere ildo politikoari .
Djukanovic has given a big change to his political course .
Djukanovicek aldaketa handia eman dio bere ildo politikoari .\n Djukanovic change big_a given has his course political_to .
nsubj(eman-4, Djukanovicek-1)
dobj(eman-4, aldaketa-2)
amod(aldaketa-2, handia-3)
aux(eman-4, dio-5)
nmod(ildo-7, bere-6)
amod(ildo-7, politikoari-8)
iobj(eman-4, ildo-7)
punct(eman-4, .-9)
Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)
This relation is universal.
1022 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as iobj.
689 instances of iobj (67%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 2.73287671232877.