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Specific constructions

Elements of a clause

Passives

Swedish has two ways of forming passives, a morphological passive (s-passive) and a periphrastic passive (bli-passive).

Han jagades av polisen . \n He was-chased by the-police .
nsubjpass(jagades, Han)
nmod:agent(jagades, polisen)
case(polisen, av)
Han blev jagad av polisen . \n He was chased by the-police .
nsubjpass(jagad, Han)
nmod:agent(jagad, polisen)
case(polisen, av)
auxpass(jagad, blev)

In addition, the morphological passive form (s-form) is sometimes used without a passive meaning (so-called deponens and reciprocal verbs). These are distinguished from true passives by having the feature Voice=Pass (passive form) but the dependency relation nsubj (not nsubjpass) to their subjects.

Jag hoppas att du kommer . \n I hope that you come
nsubj(hoppas, Jag)
ccomp(hoppas, kommer)

Elements of a nominal

Adjectival and adverbial constructions