iobj: indirect object
An indirect object is a nominal which corresponds to a dative object.
Il m' envoie une lettre . \n He sends me a letter .
iobj(envoie, m')
When the indirect object is realized with a preposition, it gets analyzed with the nmod relation:
Il envoie la lettre à la présidente . \n He sends the letter to the president .
nmod(envoie, présidente)
case(présidente, à)
The iobj relation is also used for pronouns in prononimal verbs which are indirect objects:
Il se parle tout haut. \n He speaks to himself out loud .
iobj(parle, se)
Treebank Statistics (UD_French)
This relation is universal.
893 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as iobj.
887 instances of iobj (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.7939529675252.
The following 6 pairs of parts of speech are connected with iobj: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PRON (814; 91% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PRON (45; 5% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/PRON (26; 3% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/PRON (6; 1% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances).
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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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1 Le le DET _ Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 det _ _
2 roi roi NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _
3 Mutesa Mutesa PROPN _ _ 2 appos _ _
4 II II NUM _ _ 3 nummod _ _
5 en en PRON _ Person=3 8 iobj _ _
6 devient devenir VERB _ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _
7 le le DET _ Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 det _ _
8 président président NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ _
9 à à ADP _ _ 10 case _ _
10 vie vie NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _
11 . . PUNCT _ _ 8 punct _ _
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1 Le le DET _ Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 det _ _
2 coût coût NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _
3 en en PRON _ Person=3 6 iobj _ _
4 est être VERB _ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _
5 moins moins ADV _ _ 6 advmod _ _
6 difficile difficile ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ _
7 . . PUNCT _ _ 6 punct _ _
iobj in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]