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dobj: direct object

A direct object is a nominal which is the (accusative) object of the verbal predicate.

Il mange un sandwich . \n He eats a sandwich .
dobj(mange, sandwich)

The dobj relation is also used for a reflexive pronoun in pronominal verb when the pronoun is a direct object of the verb. When the grammatical relation of the pronoun is not a direct object nor an indirect object (as in se douter “to suspect”), the pronoun gets analyzed as expl.

Il se lave . \n He washes himself .
dobj(lave, se)

Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

15013 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as dobj.

11316 instances of dobj (75%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.2178112302671.

The following 36 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dobj: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/NOUN (10219; 68% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PRON (3758; 25% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PROPN (724; 5% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/NUM (52; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/SYM (50; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/PRON (41; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PRON (31; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/NOUN (20; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/PRON (19; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/X (16; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/NOUN (12; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADJ (11; 0% instances), fr-pos/AUX-fr-pos/NOUN (9; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/PRON (6; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/NOUN (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/SCONJ (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/VERB (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/AUX-fr-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PROPN (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/PROPN (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/INTJ-fr-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/X (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/INTJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).

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1	Les	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	2	det	_	_
2	compagnies	compagnie	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	aériennes	aérien	ADJ	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	2	amod	_	_
4	à	à	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	_
5	bas	bas	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	amod	_	_
6	coût	coût	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	ne	ne	PART	_	_	8	neg	_	_
8	connaissent	connaître	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	pas	pas	ADV	_	_	8	neg	_	_
10	la	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	11	det	_	_
11	crise	crise	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	8	dobj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	_	_

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1	Pourquoi	pourquoi	ADV	_	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mais	mais	CONJ	_	_	1	cc	_	_
4	pourquoi	pourquoi	ADV	_	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	Le	le	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	dobj	_	_
6	bénirais	bénir	VERB	_	Mood=Cnd|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	-je	je	PRON	_	Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	Elle	elle	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	y	y	PRON	_	_	3	iobj	_	_
3	incarnera	incarner	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	la	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	det	_	_
5	Poussette	Poussette	PROPN	_	_	3	dobj	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	_
7	Manon	Manon	PROPN	_	_	5	nmod	_	_
8	peu	peu	ADV	_	_	10	det	_	_
9	de	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|PronType=Dem	8	mwe	_	_
10	temps	temps	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	après	après	ADV	_	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_


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