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nmod: nominal modifier

The nmod relation is used for nominal modifiers. They depend either on another noun (group “noun dependents”) or on a predicate (group “non-core dependents of clausal predicates”).

nmod is a noun (or noun phrase) functioning as a non-core (oblique) argument or adjunct. This means that it functionally corresponds to an adverbial when it attaches to a verb, adjective or other adverb. But when attaching to a noun, it corresponds to an attribute, or genitive complement (the terms are less standardized here).

The nmod relation is further specified by the Case feature or case relation.

We also use the following language-specific subtypes for nmod:

We do not currently distinguish between core arguments and adjuncts (TODO: link to discussion).

# I read the book on the plane
1	Kitabı	kitap	NOUN	NOUN	Case=Acc	3	dobj
2	uçakta	uçak	NOUN	NOUN	Case=Loc	3	nmod
3	okudum	oku	VERB	VERB	Tense=Past|Person=1|Number=Sing	0	root
# I read the book with the glasses
1	Kitabı	kitap	NOUN	NOUN	Case=Acc	3	dobj
2	gözlükle	gözlük	NOUN	NOUN	Case=Ins	3	nmod
3	okudum	oku	VERB	VERB	Tense=Past|Person=1|Number=Sing	0	root
# I read the book out of curiosity
1	Kitabı	kitap	NOUN	NOUN	Case=Acc	3	dobj
2	meraktan	merak	NOUN	NOUN	Case=Abl	3	nmod
3	okudum	oku	VERB	VERB	Tense=Past|Person=1|Number=Sing	0	root
# I read the book to the children
1	Kitabı	kitap	NOUN	NOUN	Case=Acc	3	dobj
2	çocuklara	çocuk	NOUN	NOUN	Case=Dat	3	nmod
3	okudum	oku	VERB	VERB	Tense=Past|Person=1|Number=Sing	0	root
resim –li kitap \n (the\/a) book with illustrations
nmod(kitap, resim)
case(resim, –li)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Turkish)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:poss.

8123 nodes (14%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

7768 instances of nmod (96%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.6589929828881.

The following 50 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/NOUN (3975; 49% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/NOUN (1114; 14% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/VERB (653; 8% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/PRON (555; 7% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/NOUN (422; 5% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/PROPN (270; 3% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/PROPN (177; 2% instances), tr-pos/PROPN-tr-pos/NOUN (165; 2% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/VERB (154; 2% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/PRON (129; 2% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/VERB (79; 1% instances), tr-pos/ADV-tr-pos/NOUN (74; 1% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/PRON (58; 1% instances), tr-pos/CONJ-tr-pos/NOUN (50; 1% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/PROPN (41; 1% instances), tr-pos/NUM-tr-pos/NOUN (36; 0% instances), tr-pos/PRON-tr-pos/PRON (18; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADV-tr-pos/VERB (17; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADV-tr-pos/PRON (15; 0% instances), tr-pos/CONJ-tr-pos/VERB (14; 0% instances), tr-pos/PRON-tr-pos/NOUN (13; 0% instances), tr-pos/CONJ-tr-pos/PROPN (11; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADP-tr-pos/NOUN (10; 0% instances), tr-pos/PUNCT-tr-pos/NOUN (8; 0% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/X (6; 0% instances), tr-pos/CONJ-tr-pos/PRON (5; 0% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/X (5; 0% instances), tr-pos/PRON-tr-pos/VERB (5; 0% instances), tr-pos/PUNCT-tr-pos/VERB (5; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADV-tr-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), tr-pos/PUNCT-tr-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), tr-pos/INTJ-tr-pos/PROPN (3; 0% instances), tr-pos/NUM-tr-pos/PROPN (3; 0% instances), tr-pos/PROPN-tr-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), tr-pos/PROPN-tr-pos/PROPN (3; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADP-tr-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADP-tr-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/DET-tr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/X-tr-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/X (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/ADP-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/AUX-tr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/DET-tr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/DET-tr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/INTJ-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/NUM-tr-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/NUM-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/NUM-tr-pos/X (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/PROPN-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).

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1	Nefes	nefes	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	nmod	_	_
2	nefese	nefes	NOUN	Noun	Case=Dat|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	nmod	_	_
3	kalmıştım	kal	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pqp	0	root	_	_
4	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Nefes	nefes	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	nmod	_	_
2	nefese	nefes	NOUN	Noun	Case=Dat|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	nmod	_	_
3	kalmıştım	kal	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pqp	0	root	_	_
4	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Kurtulup	kurtul	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Trans	3	advcl	_	_
2	buraya	bura	NOUN	Noun	Case=Dat|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	nmod	_	_
3	gelmeyi	gel	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Case=Acc|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	4	nmod	_	_
4	başardım	başar	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past	0	root	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	4	punct	_	_


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