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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.

Examples:

Slán leat , a chara `Goodbye , friend’

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Slán leat , a chara \n Goodbye with_you, [] friend
vocative(Slán, chara)
{
    "text": "Slán leat , a chara \n Goodbye with_you, [] friend ",
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}

Is dóigh liom a Mháiréad, go bhfuil mé i ngrá leat `I think Mairead, that I’m in love with you’

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Is dóigh liom a Mháiréad , go bhfuil mé i ngrá leat \n Is belief with_me [] Mairead , that am I in love with_you
vocative(dóigh, Mháiréad)
{
    "text": "Is dóigh liom a Mháiréad , go bhfuil mé i ngrá leat \n Is belief with_me [] Mairead , that am I in love with_you ",
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}

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Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This relation is universal.

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

13 instances of vocative (65%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 6.

The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: VERB-PROPN (6; 30% instances), NOUN-PROPN (5; 25% instances), VERB-NOUN (5; 25% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 5% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 5% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 5% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 5% instances).

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1	PÁIDÍ	Páidí	PROPN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
2	Cuir	cuir	VERB	VTI	Mood=Imp|Number=Sing|Person=2	0	root	_	_
3	do	do	DET	Det	Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lámh	lámh	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	2	dobj	_	_
5	thar	thar	ADP	Simp	_	7	case	_	_
6	mo	mo	DET	Det	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ghualainn	gualainn	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Form=Len|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	Punct	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	PART	Voc	PartType=Voc	10	case:voc	_	_
10	sheanduine	duine	NOUN	Noun	Case=Voc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	(	(	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Ag	ag	ADP	Simp	_	3	case	_	_
3	béicíl	béicíl	NOUN	Noun	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
4	)	)	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Téigh	téigh	VERB	VTI	Mood=Imp|Number=Sing|Person=2	0	root	_	_
6	abhaile	abhaile	ADV	Dir	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	Punct	_	8	punct	_	_
8	a	a	PART	Voc	PartType=Voc	9	case:voc	_	_
9	bhithiúnaigh	bithiúnach	NOUN	Noun	Case=Voc|Form=Len|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	!	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	'	'	PUNCT	Punct	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Slán	slán	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	leat	le	ADP	Prep	Number=Sing|Person=2	2	nmod:prep	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	Punct	_	2	punct	_	_
5	a	a	PART	Voc	PartType=Voc	6	case:voc	_	_
6	Dhoráid	Dhoráid	PROPN	Noun	Case=Voc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
7	!	!	PUNCT	!	_	2	punct	_	_

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