Treebank Statistics: UD_English-EWT: Relations: vocative
This relation is universal.
182 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.
104 instances of vocative (57%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 3.40659340659341.
The following 16 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: VERB-PROPN (56; 31% instances), NOUN-PROPN (43; 24% instances), VERB-NOUN (19; 10% instances), INTJ-PROPN (15; 8% instances), NOUN-NOUN (12; 7% instances), ADJ-PROPN (11; 6% instances), ADV-PROPN (7; 4% instances), INTJ-NOUN (7; 4% instances), ADJ-NOUN (2; 1% instances), INTJ-DET (2; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (2; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (2; 1% instances), INTJ-PRON (1; 1% instances), NUM-PROPN (1; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (1; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (1; 1% instances).
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1 Malach Malach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 vocative 6:vocative SpaceAfter=No
2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct 1:punct _
3 What what PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj 5:obj|6:nsubj _
4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj 5:nsubj _
5 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl 3:acl:relcl Cxn=rc-free-obj
6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root 0:root _
7 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj 6:obj SpaceAfter=No
8 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct 6:punct _
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1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod 2:amod _
2 Morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root 0:root _
3 Debra Debra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 vocative 2:vocative _
4 - - PUNCT , _ 2 punct 2:punct _
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1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj 3:nsubj CxnElt=3:Interrogative-WHInfo-Direct.WHWord
2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux 3:aux _
3 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root 0:root Cxn=Interrogative-WHInfo-Direct|CxnElt=3:Interrogative-WHInfo-Direct.Clause
4 on on ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt 3:compound:prt _
5 dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 vocative 3:vocative SpaceAfter=No
6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct 3:punct _