Treebank Statistics: UD_English-GENTLE: Relations: root
This relation is universal.
1334 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as root.
1334 instances of root (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 4.02248875562219.
The following 13 pairs of parts of speech are connected with root: -VERB (594; 45% instances), -NOUN (456; 34% instances), -PROPN (104; 8% instances), -ADJ (99; 7% instances), -SYM (23; 2% instances), -ADV (14; 1% instances), -PRON (12; 1% instances), -INTJ (10; 1% instances), -NUM (9; 1% instances), -X (8; 1% instances), -ADP (3; 0% instances), -AUX (1; 0% instances), -DET (1; 0% instances).
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1 Rhymes rhyme VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root 0:root Discourse=organization-preparation:41->42:0:ref-prop-163,165+grf-col-164|Entity=(62-abstract-new-cf1-1-disc)|SpaceAfter=No
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3 -ɛkst -ɛkst INTJ UH _ 1 dep 1:dep Discourse=joint-list_m:42->36:2:grf-seq-|Entity=(62-abstract-giv:act-cf1-1-coref)|XML=<ref target:::"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%9Bkst"></ref>
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1 Alternative alternative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod 2:amod Discourse=organization-heading:3->4:2:grf-ly-|Entity=(3-abstract-new-cf1-2-sgl|MSeg=Alternat-ive|PDTB=NoRel:NoRel:_:_:2:3-4|XML=<hi rend:::"bold">
2 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root 0:root Entity=3)|MSeg=form-s|XML=</hi>
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1 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root 0:root Discourse=organization-heading:2->4:4:grf-ly-|Entity=(2-abstract-new-cf1-1-sgl-English_language)|MSeg=Engl-ish