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xcomp: open clausal complement

An open clausal complement (xcomp) of a verb or an adjective is a predicative or clausal complement without its own subject (“without its own subject” does not mean that a clause is an xcomp just because its subject is not overt). The reference of the subject is necessarily determined by an argument external to the xcomp (normally by the object of the next higher clause, if there is one, or else by the subject of the next higher clause). These clauses are non-finite in Basque (although in some languages can be finite).

Atzo entrenamendua uztea erabaki zuen .

Yesterday (he/she) decided to leave the training .

Mentalki irmo ikusi ditut haiek .

I have seen them mentally firm .

Madrilera ez joatea erabaki zuen .

(He/she) decided not to go to Madrid .


Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

1392 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as xcomp.

1137 instances of xcomp (82%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.16666666666667.

The following 32 pairs of parts of speech are connected with xcomp: VERB-VERB (1013; 73% instances), VERB-NOUN (145; 10% instances), VERB-ADJ (99; 7% instances), NOUN-VERB (43; 3% instances), VERB-ADV (13; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (10; 1% instances), ADJ-VERB (9; 1% instances), AUX-VERB (8; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (6; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (6; 0% instances), CONJ-VERB (5; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (5; 0% instances), PUNCT-VERB (4; 0% instances), VERB-DET (3; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (2; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (2; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (2; 0% instances), X-NOUN (2; 0% instances), X-VERB (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (1; 0% instances), AUX-ADJ (1; 0% instances), AUX-ADV (1; 0% instances), AUX-PROPN (1; 0% instances), CONJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (1; 0% instances), VERB-INTJ (1; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-X (1; 0% instances).


xcomp in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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