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vocative: vocative modifier

The dependency type vocative is used for vocatives, that is, expressions where someone is being addressed. The governor of the dependency is the main predicate of the clause where the addressing occurs.

Pekka , tulisitko tänne ? \n Pekka , would_you_come here ?
vocative(tulisitko-3, Pekka-1)
punct(Pekka-1, ,-2)
advmod(tulisitko-3, tänne-4)
punct(tulisitko-3, ?-5)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

This relation is universal.

106 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.

81 instances of vocative (76%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 4.77358490566038.

The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/NOUN (67; 63% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PROPN (17; 16% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/NOUN (6; 6% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NOUN (6; 6% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/PROPN (3; 3% instances), fi-pos/ADV-fi-pos/NOUN (2; 2% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PROPN (2; 2% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PRON (1; 1% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/SYM (1; 1% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PRON (1; 1% instances).

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1	Älkää	ei	VERB	V	Mood=Imp|Negative=Neg|Number=Plur|Person=2|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	4	neg	_	_
2	hyvät	hyvä	ADJ	A	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur	3	amod	_	_
3	ihmiset	ihminen	NOUN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Plur	4	vocative	_	_
4	karistako	karistaa	VERB	V	Connegative=Yes|Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sikarista	sikari	NOUN	N	Case=Ela|Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
6	tuhkaa	tuhka	NOUN	N	Case=Par|Number=Sing	4	dobj	_	_
7	pois	pois	ADV	Adv	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	Punct	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	On	olla	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
2	sinulla	sinä	PRON	Pron	Case=Ade|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	nmod:own	_	_
3	saarnat	saarna	NOUN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	Punct	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Simeoni	Simeoni	PROPN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	Punct	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Arvoisa	arvoisa	ADJ	A	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing	2	amod	_	_
2	puhemies	puhe#mies	NOUN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	Punct	_	2	punct	_	_
4	kiitos	kiitos	NOUN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	huomaavaisuudestanne	huomaavaisuus	NOUN	N	Case=Ela|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Plur|Person[psor]=2	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	Punct	_	4	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

This relation is universal.

159 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.

107 instances of vocative (67%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.55345911949686.

The following 18 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/NOUN (56; 35% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PROPN (50; 31% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PRON (24; 15% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PROPN (5; 3% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PROPN (3; 2% instances), fi-pos/INTJ-fi-pos/NOUN (3; 2% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NOUN (3; 2% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/PROPN (3; 2% instances), fi-pos/ADV-fi-pos/NOUN (2; 1% instances), fi-pos/INTJ-fi-pos/PROPN (2; 1% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 1% instances), fi-pos/PART-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 1% instances), fi-pos/PART-fi-pos/PRON (1; 1% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 1% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/ADJ (1; 1% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/VERB (1; 1% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 1% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/X (1; 1% instances).

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1	Saanhan	saada	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg1,Han	Clitic=Han|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
2	mä	minä	PRON	Pron,Pers,Sg1,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Style=Coll	1	nsubj	_	_
3	koiran	koira	NOUN	N,Sg,Gen	Case=Gen|Number=Sing	1	dobj	_	_
4	äiti	äiti	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	Pun	_	4	punct	_	_
6	saanhan	saada	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg1,Han	Clitic=Han|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	1	conj	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	Pun	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	No	no	INTJ	Pcle,Interj	_	2	discourse	_	Alt=2_discourse
2	niin	niin	PART	Pcle	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	Pun	_	2	punct	_	_
4	tules	tulla	VERB	V,Act,Imprt,Sg2,S	Clitic=S|Mood=Imp|Number=Sing|Person=2|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
5	Lasse	lasse	PROPN	N,Prop,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
6	laitetaan	laittaa	VERB	V,Pass,Ind,Pres	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	tää	tämä	PRON	Pron,Dem,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem|Style=Coll	6	dobj	_	_
8	kuntoon	kunto	NOUN	N,Sg,Ill	Case=Ill|Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	Pun	_	8	punct	_	_

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1	Ota	ottaa	VERB	V,Act,Imprt,Sg2	Mood=Imp|Number=Sing|Person=2|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
2	sinä	sinä	PRON	Pron,Pers,Sg2,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	vocative	_	_
3	tämä	tämä	PRON	Pron,Dem,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	dobj	_	_
4	niin	niin	PART	Pcle	_	6	mark	_	_
5	minä	minä	PRON	Pron,Pers,Sg1,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	otan	ottaa	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg1	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	1	conj	_	_
7	tämän	tämä	PRON	Pron,Dem,Sg,Gen	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	dobj	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	Pun	_	7	punct	_	_


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