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dobj: direct object

The direct object of a verb is the noun phrase that denotes the entity acted upon.

In Turkish, direct objects take either nominative (unmarked), or accusative cases. We do not mark arguments of verbs in other cases with dobj. (NOTE: Kyrgiz treebank marks ablatives as in pastadan aldı ‘he took from the cake’. We may consider doing the same. At least we should try to unify the analyses.) Note also that we mark objects of intransitive causative verbs using dobj:cau.

Hafta sonları kitap okurum . \n I read (books) during weekends
dobj(okurum, kitap)
Kitabı okudum . \n I read the book.
dobj(okudum, Kitabı)

We also mark the non-case marked or accusative noun phrases as dobj even if they are not the entities that are acted upon.

Dün 10 kilometre koştum . \n I ran 10 kilometers yesterday
dobj(koştum, kilometre)
Dün 10 kilometreyi 35 dakikada koştum . \n  Yesterday, I ran 10 kilometers in 35 minutes
dobj(koştum, kilometreyi)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Turkish)

This relation is universal.

4467 nodes (8%) are attached to their parents as dobj.

4270 instances of dobj (96%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.78397134542198.

The following 43 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dobj: tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/NOUN (2674; 60% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/VERB (748; 17% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/PRON (418; 9% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/ADJ (304; 7% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/PROPN (86; 2% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/NOUN (51; 1% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/NOUN (43; 1% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/NUM (28; 1% instances), tr-pos/ADV-tr-pos/NOUN (20; 0% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/VERB (12; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/ADJ (9; 0% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/PRON (8; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/VERB (6; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/PRON (5; 0% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/ADJ (5; 0% instances), tr-pos/PRON-tr-pos/NOUN (5; 0% instances), tr-pos/PUNCT-tr-pos/NOUN (4; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADP-tr-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), tr-pos/CONJ-tr-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/ADP (3; 0% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/CONJ (3; 0% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/PUNCT (3; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADV-tr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/PUNCT-tr-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADP-tr-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADP-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADV-tr-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADV-tr-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/CONJ-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/DET-tr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/NUM-tr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/PRON-tr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/PRON-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/PROPN-tr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/PUNCT-tr-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/PUNCT-tr-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/PUNCT-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).

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1	Bir	bir	NUM	ANum	NumType=Card	2	det	_	_
2	taksi	taksi	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	dobj	_	_
3	bulduk	bul	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past	0	root	_	_
4	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Oğlum	oğul	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person=3|Person[psor]=1	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	Punc	_	7	punct	_	_
3	Ne	ne	PRON	Ques	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	4	nmod	_	_
4	işe	iş	NOUN	Noun	Case=Dat|Number=Sing|Person=3	5	nmod	_	_
5	yaradığını	yara	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Case=Acc|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	dobj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	Punc	_	5	punct	_	_
7	sordu	sor	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past	0	root	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	7	punct	_	_

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1	Ne	ne	PRON	Ques	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	dobj	_	_
2	anlatacaktın	anlat	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=FutPast	0	root	_	_
3	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	2	punct	_	_


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