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vocative: vocative

The vocative relation is used to mark a dialogue participant addressed in text (common in conversations, emails and newsgroup postings). The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence.

Les gars , faites attention ! \n Guys , be careful !
vocative(faites, gars)
David , comment ça va ? \n David, how 's it going ?
vocative(va, David)

Note: the vocative relation is not currently annotated in the French data.


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

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

1 instances of vocative (50%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.

The following 1 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PROPN (2; 100% instances).

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1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	_	_	4	vocative	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_
3	je	il	PRON	_	Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pars	partir	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dans	dans	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	_
6	mon	son	DET	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sommeil	sommeil	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_


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