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Dependencies

Note: nmod, neg, and punct appear in two places.

Core dependents of clausal predicates
Nominal dep Predicate dep
nsubj csubj
nsubjpass csubjpass
dobj ccomp xcomp
iobj
Non-core dependents of clausal predicates
Nominal dep Predicate dep Modifier word
nmod advcl advmod
nmod:agent
nmod:poss
    neg
Special clausal dependents
Nominal dep Auxiliary Other
vocative aux mark
discourse auxpass punct
expl cop
Noun dependents
Nominal dep Predicate dep Modifier word
nummod acl amod
  acl:relcl
appos   det
nmod   neg
Compounding and unanalyzed
compound mwe goeswith
compound:prt
name foreign
Coordination
conj cc punct
Case-marking, prepositions, possessive
case
Loose joining relations
list parataxis remnant
dislocated reparandum
Other
Sentence head Unspecified dependency
root dep

Dependencies sv


acl:
clausal modifier of noun

acl is used for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a noun, including cases of secondary predication. Note that in Swedish relative clauses get assigned a specific relation acl:relcl, a subtype of acl.

Non-relative clausal dependents of nouns are limited to complement clauses with a subset of nouns like faktum (fact). We analyze them as acl (parallel to the analysis of this class as “content clauses” in Huddleston and Pullum 2002). Such clausal complements are usually finite (though there are occasional remnant Swedish subjunctives).

Hur förenas detta med det faktum att många äktenskap upplöses ? \n How can that be reconciled with the fact that many marriages break up?
acl(faktum, upplöses) 

In addition, interrogative clauses can be linked to nouns by prepositions.

En bild av vad som händer \n A picture of what happens
acl(bild, händer)
Ta ansvar för vad du gör \n Take responsibility for what you do
acl(ansvar, gör)

The acl relation is also used for secondary predicates modifying a nominal.

Han lämnade rummet gråtande . \n He left the room crying .
acl(Han, gråtande)
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acl:relcl:
relative clause modifier

The acl:relcl relation is used for relative clauses modifying a nominal. The relation points from the head of the nominal to the head of the relative clause. Relative clauses are always finite in Swedish and the relative pronoun can be omitted when it does not have the subject function.

Jag såg den man som älskar dig \n I saw the man who loves you
acl:relcl(man-4, älskar)
nsubj(älskar, som)
dobj(älskar, dig)
Jag såg den man som du älskar \n I saw the man who you love
acl:relcl(man-4, älskar)
nsubj(älskar, du)
dobj(älskar, som)
Jag såg den man du älskar \n I saw the man you love
acl:relcl(man-4, älskar)
nsubj(älskar, du)
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advcl:
adverbial clause modifier

An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.) as a modifier, not as a core complement. This includes things like temporal, conditional and purpose clauses, etc. The dependent must be clausal (or else it is an advmod) and the dependent is the main predicate of the clause.

Han gör inte ett dugg hemma när han kommer hem \n He doesn't do anything around the house when he gets home
advcl(gör, kommer)
Jag måste arbeta för att ekonomin ska gå ihop \n I have to work to make ends meet
advcl(arbeta, gå)
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aux:
auxiliary

An auxiliary of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause.

Exception: An auxiliary verb used to construct the passive voice is not labeled aux but auxpass.

vilka funktioner den tidigare har haft \n which functions it previously has had
aux(haft, har)
Vilka konsekvenser kan det ha ? \n What consequences can this have ?
aux(ha, kan)
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cc:
coordinating conjunction

A coordinating conjunction relation holds between the head conjunct of a coordinate structure and any of the coordinating conjunction involved in the structure. This also includes the first element in paired conjunctions like både … och “both … and” and antingen … eller “either … or”. Note that we never treat punctuation as coordinating conjunctions. For more on coordination, see the conj relation.

1500 kr per barn och år \n 1500 kr per child and year
cc(barn, och)
conj(barn, år)
både äpplen och päron \n both apples and pears
cc(äpplen, både)
cc(äpplen, och)
conj(äpplen, päron)
äpplen , apelsiner och päron \n apples , oranges and pears
punct(äpplen, ,)
cc(äpplen, och)
conj(äpplen, päron)
conj(äpplen, apelsiner)
Och du har inte bara en chans \n And you don't have just one chance
cc(har, Och)
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cop:
copula

A copula is the relation between the complement of a copular verb and the copular verb. Copular heads are avoided when possible.

Bill är en ärlig man \n Bill is an honest man
cop(man-5, är)
nsubj(man-5, Bill-1)
amod(man-5, ärlig)
det(man-5, en)

Prepositional phrases are annotated similarly, the only difference being that the nominal predicate has an additional case marker.

Bill är från Kalifornien \n Bill is from California
case(Kalifornien, från)
cop(Kalifornien, är)
nsubj(Kalifornien, Bill-1)

When an adjective or adverb is being predicated of a nominal phrase, the adjective/adverb is the root, the nominal phrase is the nsubj, and the copula is the cop.

Bill är ärlig \n Bill is honest
nsubj(ärlig, Bill-1)
cop(ärlig, är)
Det var igår \n It was yesterday
nsubj(igår, Det)
cop(igår, var)

Prepositions may also project a cop dependent.

Ljuset är på \n The light is on
cop(på, är)
nsubj(på, Ljuset)

In predicative wh-constructions, the fronted wh-word is the head, and the copula is another cop.

Vad är det ? \n What is that ?
cop(Vad, är)
nsubj(Vad, det)
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dislocated:
dislocated elements

The dislocated relation is used for fronted or postposed elements that do not fulfill the usual core grammatical relations of a sentence. Dislocated elements are attached to the same governor as the dependent that they double for.

Peter , honom gillar jag inte \n Peter, I don't like him
dislocated(gillar, Peter)
dobj(gillar, honom)

A frequent case in Swedish is that of an adverbial clause resumed by the pronominal adverb :

Släpper vi in britterna , så drar de med sig danskar \n If we let the Brits in they'll bring the Danish with them
dislocated(drar, Släpper)
advcl(drar, så)

In addition, the dislocated relation is used for the focus element in a cleft sentence. This is a slight abuse of the relation, because the focus element is not a dislocated dependent of its syntactic head, but rather of the predicate in the relative clause making up the second part of the cleft construction.

Det var Peter som gjorde det \n It was Peter who did it
dislocated(var, Peter)
expletive(var, Det)
acl:relcl(Peter, gjorde)
nsubj(gjorde, som)
dobj(gjorde, det)
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mwe:
multi-word expression

The multi-word expression (modifier) relation is one of the three relations (compound, mwe, name) for compounding. It is used for certain fixed grammaticized expressions that behave like function words or short adverbials. The first word is always taken as the head, with all subsequent words as direct dependents.

i dag \n today
mwe(i, dag)
över huvud taget \n at all
mwe(över, huvud)
mwe(över, taget)
när det gäller \n when it comes to
mwe(när, det)
mwe(när, gäller)
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name:
name

The name relation is one of the three relations for compounding in UD (together with compound and mwe). It is used for proper nouns constituted of multiple nominal elements. For example, name would be used between the words of Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York, or Carl XVI Gustaf but not to replace the usual relations in a phrasal or clausal name like The king of Sweden or the novels The Lord of the Rings and Captured By Aliens.

Words joined by name should all be part of a minimal noun phrase; otherwise regular syntactic relations should be used. This is basically similar to the treatment of noun compounds with compound, except that in many cases parts of the name may be another nominal element such as an adjective (United Airlines).

In general, names are annotated in a flat, head-initial structure, in which all words in the name modify the first one using the name label.

Carl XVI Gustaf
name(Carl-1, Gustaf-3)
name(Carl-1, XVI-2)

For names with a clear syntactic modification structure, the dependencies should instead reflect the syntactic modification structure using regular syntactic relations, as in:

Statens veterinärmedicinska anstalt \n The government institute for veterinary medicine
nmod:poss(anstalt, Statens)
amod(anstalt, veterinärmedicinska)
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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 (u-dep/parataxis)

Barn leker nästan jämt , leken är deras arbete \n Children play all the time , play is their work  
parataxis(leker, arbete)
Barn har rätt till fritid ( se nedan ) \n Children have a right to free time ( see below )
parataxis(har, se)
Det är tanken : barn är framtiden \n That is the thought : children are the future
parataxis(tanken, framtiden)
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remnant:
remnant in ellipsis

The remnant relation is used to analyze cases of ellipsis where there is no function word that can be promoted to take the place of the elided content word. For a full discussion of its use, see the universal dependency description (u-dep/remnant).

Marie åkte till Paris och Miriam till Prague \n Marie went to Paris and Miriam to Prague
nsubj(åkte, Marie-1)
nmod(åkte-2, Paris-4)
case(Paris-4, till-3)
cc(åkte, och)
remnant(Marie-1, Miriam-6)
case(Prague-8, till)
remnant(Paris-4, Prague-8)
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xcomp:
open clausal complement

An open clausal complement (xcomp) of a verb or an adjective is a predicative or clausal complement without its own subject. The reference of the subject is necessarily determined by an argument external to the xcomp (normally by the object of the next higher clause, if there is one, or else by the subject of the next higher clause). These complements are always non-finite, and they are complements (arguments of the higher verb or adjective) rather than adjuncts/modifiers, such as a purpose clause. The name xcomp is borrowed from Lexical-Functional Grammar.

Han säger att du gillar att simma \n He says that you like to swim
xcomp(gillar, simma)
Nu kan vi låta barnen studera om de vill \n Now we can let the children study if they want to
xcomp(låta, studera)
Jag betraktar honom som min vän \n I consider him as my friend
xcomp(betraktar, vän)
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