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Case: case

Case is usually an inflectional feature of nouns, helping to specify the role of the noun phrase in the sentence. Swedish makes use of three cases: nominative, accusative, and genitive. The accusative is found only in pronouns (PRON), while the nominative/genitive distinction occurs with nouns (NOUN), proper nouns (PROPN) and adjectives (ADJ).

Nom: nominative

The base form, typically used as a citation form (lemma).

Examples

Acc: accusative

In many languages used for direct objects of verbs. In Swedish this form is only used for personal pronouns.

Examples

Gen: genitive

Prototypical meaning of genitive is that the noun phrase somehow belongs to its governor; it would often be translated by the English preposition of. The genitive in Swedish does not however always imply possession, for example Stillhetens hav “Sea of Tranquility

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 3 different values: Acc, Gen, Nom.

36627 tokens (38%) have a non-empty value of Case. 12626 types (84%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case. 8623 lemmas (84%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case. The feature is used with 6 part-of-speech tags: sv-pos/NOUN (22429; 23% instances), sv-pos/ADJ (8466; 9% instances), sv-pos/PRON (2613; 3% instances), sv-pos/NUM (1733; 2% instances), sv-pos/PROPN (1337; 1% instances), sv-pos/VERB (49; 0% instances).

NOUN

22429 sv-pos/NOUN tokens (98% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Case co-occurred: Gender=Com (15646; 70%), Number=Sing (15357; 68%), Definite=Ind (14737; 66%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm barnNomGen
Definite=Def|Number=Singbarnetbarnets
Definite=Def|Number=Plurbarnenbarnens
Definite=Ind|Number=Singbarnbarns
Definite=Ind|Number=Plurbarnbarns

Case seems to be lexical feature of NOUN. 95% lemmas (5535) occur only with one value of Case.

ADJ

8466 sv-pos/ADJ tokens (100% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Case co-occurred: Tense=EMPTY (6902; 82%), VerbForm=EMPTY (6902; 82%), Degree=Pos (5934; 70%), Gender=EMPTY (5330; 63%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm annanNomGen
_andra
Definite=Def|Degree=Pos|Gender=Masc|Number=Singandreandres
Definite=Def|Degree=Pos|Number=Singandra
Definite=Ind|Degree=Pos|Gender=Com|Number=Singannan
Definite=Ind|Degree=Pos|Gender=Neut|Number=Singannat
Degree=Pos|Number=Plurandra

Case seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 99% lemmas (1824) occur only with one value of Case.

PRON

2613 sv-pos/PRON tokens (44% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Case co-occurred: Definite=Def (1934; 74%), PronType=Prs (1889; 72%), Gender=Com (1680; 64%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm deNomAcc
PronType=Indde
PronType=Prsdedem
PronType=Relde
PronType=Totdem

NUM

1733 sv-pos/NUM tokens (100% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which NUM and Case co-occurred: NumType=Card (1733; 100%).

NUM tokens may have the following values of Case:

Case seems to be lexical feature of NUM. 100% lemmas (479) occur only with one value of Case.

PROPN

1337 sv-pos/PROPN tokens (98% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm SverigeNomGen
SverigeSveriges

Case seems to be lexical feature of PROPN. 92% lemmas (476) occur only with one value of Case.

VERB

49 sv-pos/VERB tokens (0% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Case co-occurred: VerbForm=Part (49; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (49; 100%), Voice=EMPTY (49; 100%), Tense=Past (49; 100%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Case:

Case seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 100% lemmas (40) occur only with one value of Case.

Relations with Agreement in Case

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Case: NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (4375; 98%), NOUN –[nmod]–> NOUN (3006; 95%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (1912; 92%), NOUN –[det]–> ADJ (1271; 97%), NOUN –[nummod]–> NUM (939; 81%), ADJ –[nmod]–> NOUN (501; 98%), ADJ –[nsubj]–> NOUN (483; 100%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (380; 100%), NOUN –[appos]–> NOUN (258; 90%), NOUN –[nsubj]–> NOUN (251; 93%).


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