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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.), as a modifier not as a core complement. This includes things such as a temporal clause, consequence, conditional clause, purpose clause, etc. The dependent must be clausal (or else it is an advmod) and the dependent is the main predicate of the clause.

L'accident s'est produit quand il faisait noir \n The accident happened when it was dark
advcl(produit, faisait)
Si tu sais qui l'a fait, tu devrais le dire au professeur \n If you know who did it, you should tell the teacher
advcl(dire, sais)
Il faut venir tôt pour avoir de la place \n One needs to get there early to have a seat
advcl(venir, avoir)

Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

2938 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

2297 instances of advcl (78%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 9.80462899931926.

The following 36 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/VERB (2299; 78% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/VERB (211; 7% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/VERB (127; 4% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADJ (96; 3% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/NOUN (60; 2% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/ADJ (21; 1% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/VERB (18; 1% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADJ (17; 1% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/VERB (14; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/NOUN (14; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/VERB (11; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/NOUN (10; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PRON (7; 0% instances), fr-pos/AUX-fr-pos/VERB (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/DET-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/SCONJ-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/SYM-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances).

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1	Elle	elle	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lutte	lutter	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pour	pour	ADP	_	_	4	mark	_	_
4	échapper	échapper	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
5	à	à	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	_
6	les	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	7	det	_	_
7	tueurs	tueur	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	à	à	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	_
9	ses	son	DET	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	trousses	trousses	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Une	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	bonne	bon	ADJ	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	3	amod	_	_
3	raison	raison	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	pour	pour	ADP	_	_	5	mark	_	_
5	faire	faire	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	détour	détour	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	dobj	_	_
8	à	à	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	_
9	saint	saint	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Jean	Jean	PROPN	_	_	9	name	_	_
11	de	de	ADP	_	_	9	name	_	_
12	Maurienne	Maurienne	PROPN	_	_	9	name	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Il	il	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	n'	ne	PART	_	_	6	neg	_	_
3	est	être	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	pas	pas	ADV	_	_	6	neg	_	_
5	aussi	aussi	ADV	_	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	anxieux	anxieux	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	qu'	que	SCONJ	_	_	10	mark	_	_
8	il	il	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	y	y	PRON	_	_	10	expl	_	_
10	paraît	paraître	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	_	_


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