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 such as a temporal clause, consequence, conditional clause, purpose clause, etc. The dependent must be clausal (or else it is an advmod) and the dependent is the main predicate of the clause.
Note that we treat the conditional clauses specially and mark then with a subtype: advcl:cond.
Turkish adverbial clauses are mainly formed by a set of converbial suffixes.
Ali gelince sevindi . \n He\/she became happy when Ali arrived
advcl(sevindi, gelince)
Okurken uyuyakalmışım . \n I fell asleep while reading
advcl(uyuyakalmışım, Okurken)
The subordinator ki and a few other subordinating words may also form adverbial clauses.
Bu kitabı sen de okursun diye aldım \n I bought this book so that you would read it too
advcl(aldım, okursun)
mark(okursun, diye)
Bu kitabı aldım ki sen de okuyasın \n I bought this book so that you would read it too
advcl(aldım, okuyasın)
mark(okuyasın, ki)
Bu kitabı okudun mu herşeyi anlayacaksın \n You will understand everything once you have read this book
advcl(anlayacaksın, okudun)
mark(okudun, mu)
A large number of adverbials and adverbial clauses are formed by postpositions attached to nouns or noun clauses.
We do not mark these as adverbial (advmod or advcl).
For both cases we use nmod (see discussion of subordination
in tr-overview/specific-syntax).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Turkish)
This relation is universal.
813 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.
780 instances of advcl (96%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 4.1980319803198.
The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/VERB (755; 93% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/VERB (29; 4% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/VERB (19; 2% instances), tr-pos/ADP-tr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/NUM-tr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/PRON-tr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/PROPN-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances).
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1 Uzanıp uza VERB Verb Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Trans|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _
2 mektubu mektup NOUN Noun Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 dobj _ _
3 aldı al VERB Verb Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past 0 root _ _
4 . . PUNCT Punc _ 3 punct _ _
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1 Binamıza bina NOUN Noun Case=Dat|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Plur|Person=3|Person[psor]=1 3 nmod _ _
2 isim isim NOUN Noun Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 dobj _ _
3 bulmak bul VERB Verb Aspect=Perf|Case=Nom|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ _
4 diye diye ADP PCNom _ 3 case _ _
5 bir bir NUM ANum NumType=Card 6 det _ _
6 mesele mesele NOUN Noun Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3 7 nsubj _ _
7 çıkmıştı çık VERB Verb Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pqp 0 root _ _
8 . . PUNCT Punc _ 7 punct _ _
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1 Olayın olay NOUN Noun Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 nmod:poss _ _
2 ilk ilk ADJ Adj _ 3 amod _ _
3 günü gün NOUN Noun Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person=3|Person[psor]=3 7 nmod _ _
4 böyle böyle ADJ Adj _ 6 det _ _
5 bir bir NUM ANum NumType=Card 6 det _ _
6 neticeye netice NOUN Noun Case=Dat|Number=Sing|Person=3 7 nmod _ _
7 varmak var VERB Verb Aspect=Perf|Case=Nom|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 11 advcl _ _
8 için için ADP PCNom _ 7 case _ _
9 kahin kahin NOUN Noun Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3 10 nsubj _ _
10 olmak ol VERB Verb Aspect=Perf|Case=Nom|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 11 ccomp _ _
11 lazım lazım ADJ Adj _ 0 root _ _
12 . . PUNCT Punc _ 11 punct _ _
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