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parataxis: parataxis

The parataxis relation (from Greek for “place side by side”) is a relation between the main verb of a clause and other sentential elements, such as a sentential parenthetical, a clause after a “:” or a “;”, or two sentences placed side by side without any explicit coordination or subordination. More information can be found on the universal dependency page (parataxis)


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

603 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as parataxis.

548 instances of parataxis (91%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 13.7943615257048.

The following 27 pairs of parts of speech are connected with parataxis: VERB-VERB (313; 52% instances), NOUN-VERB (99; 16% instances), ADJ-VERB (56; 9% instances), VERB-NOUN (38; 6% instances), VERB-ADJ (25; 4% instances), NOUN-ADJ (15; 2% instances), ADJ-NOUN (9; 1% instances), NOUN-NOUN (9; 1% instances), ADJ-ADJ (7; 1% instances), PROPN-VERB (4; 1% instances), VERB-PROPN (4; 1% instances), NOUN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (3; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (3; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (2; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (1; 0% instances), INTJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-PART (1; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (1; 0% instances).


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