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appos: appositional modifier

An appositional modifier of an NP is an NP immediately to the right of the first NP that serves to define or modify that NP. It also includes parenthesized examples.

Examples:

Tá gearán déanta ag Unison, ceardchumann lucht na mbónaí bána, leis an gCoimisiún `Unison, the workers’ trade union, have made a complaint to the Commission’

Chas m’athair air sa tábhairne, O’ Shea’s i nDomhnach Broc `My father met him in the pub, O’ Shea’s in Donnybrook’


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This relation is universal.

108 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as appos.

108 instances of appos (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 4.44444444444444.

The following 13 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: NOUN-NOUN (37; 34% instances), NOUN-PROPN (23; 21% instances), PROPN-NOUN (18; 17% instances), X-NOUN (10; 9% instances), NOUN-X (6; 6% instances), PROPN-PROPN (5; 5% instances), NOUN-PRON (2; 2% instances), PRON-NOUN (2; 2% instances), CONJ-PRON (1; 1% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 1% instances), NOUN-VERB (1; 1% instances), PROPN-ADJ (1; 1% instances), X-PROPN (1; 1% instances).


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