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SCONJ: subordinating conjunction

Description

A subordinating conjunction is a conjunction that links constructions by making one of them a constituent of the other.

In Irish, subordinate conjunctions normally precede a subordinate clause marker such as go, a.

There is also a special case of using agus “and” (normally CONJ) as a subordinate conjunction, where the subordinate clause is missing a surface verb `to be’, yet will have a subject in use with a progressive aspectual phrase, an adjective, a past participle or locative adverb.

Examples

Source: Studies in Irish Syntax, Nancy Stenson (1981), Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

There are 23 SCONJ lemmas (1%), 30 SCONJ types (1%) and 365 SCONJ tokens (2%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of SCONJ is: 11 in number of lemmas, 12 in number of types and 12 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent SCONJ lemmas: ach, nuair, mar, má, dá, agus, go, cé, mura, ná

The 10 most frequent SCONJ types: ach, nuair, mar, má, dá, go, más, agus, cé, ná

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: ach (SCONJ 132, CONJ 3), mar (ADP 81, SCONJ 42), (SCONJ 21, CONJ 1), agus (CONJ 625, SCONJ 18), go (PART 246, ADP 39, SCONJ 15), (PRON 23, SCONJ 10, DET 2, NOUN 1, VERB 1), (CONJ 55, PART 10, SCONJ 8), dar (VERB 9, SCONJ 2, ADP 1), de_réir (ADP 10, SCONJ 2), ó (ADP 127, PART 31, SCONJ 2, INTJ 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ach (SCONJ 95, CONJ 2), mar (ADP 76, SCONJ 39), (ADP 32, SCONJ 13, NUM 8, CONJ 1), go (PART 240, ADP 37, SCONJ 15), agus (CONJ 559, SCONJ 11), (SCONJ 6, PRON 3, NOUN 1), (CONJ 54, SCONJ 8, PART 8, X 1), is (VERB 69, CONJ 40, PART 30, SCONJ 4), dar (VERB 4, SCONJ 2), de_réir (ADP 9, SCONJ 2)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of SCONJ is 1.304348 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.449988).

The 1st highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “mura”: Mur, mara, mura, murab.

The 2nd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “ach”: ach, acht.

The 3rd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “agus”: agus, is.

SCONJ occurs with 2 features: ga-feat/VerbForm (21; 6% instances), ga-feat/Tense (3; 1% instances)

SCONJ occurs with 2 feature-value pairs: Tense=Past, VerbForm=Cop

SCONJ occurs with 4 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (343 tokens). Examples: ach, nuair, mar, má, dá, go, agus, cé, ná, mura

Relations

SCONJ nodes are attached to their parents using 14 different relations: ga-dep/mark (270; 74% instances), ga-dep/advmod (35; 10% instances), ga-dep/mark:prt (26; 7% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (6; 2% instances), ga-dep/conj (6; 2% instances), ga-dep/cc (4; 1% instances), ga-dep/case (3; 1% instances), ga-dep/dobj (3; 1% instances), ga-dep/nmod (3; 1% instances), ga-dep/nsubj (3; 1% instances), ga-dep/root (3; 1% instances), ga-dep/advcl (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/cop (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/parataxis (1; 0% instances)

Parents of SCONJ nodes belong to 11 different parts of speech: VERB (253; 69% instances), NOUN (60; 16% instances), ADJ (12; 3% instances), PRON (11; 3% instances), ADP (9; 2% instances), SCONJ (8; 2% instances), PROPN (4; 1% instances), ADV (3; 1% instances), ROOT (3; 1% instances), CONJ (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)

243 (67%) SCONJ nodes are leaves.

84 (23%) SCONJ nodes have one child.

25 (7%) SCONJ nodes have two children.

13 (4%) SCONJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a SCONJ node is 7.

Children of SCONJ nodes are attached using 19 different relations: ga-dep/punct (93; 50% instances), ga-dep/advcl (21; 11% instances), ga-dep/xcomp:pred (11; 6% instances), ga-dep/nmod (9; 5% instances), ga-dep/nsubj (8; 4% instances), ga-dep/conj (7; 4% instances), ga-dep/cc (6; 3% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (5; 3% instances), ga-dep/advmod (4; 2% instances), ga-dep/compound (4; 2% instances), ga-dep/mark (3; 2% instances), ga-dep/xcomp (3; 2% instances), ga-dep/acl:relcl (2; 1% instances), ga-dep/amod (2; 1% instances), ga-dep/csubj:cop (2; 1% instances), ga-dep/dobj (2; 1% instances), ga-dep/case (1; 1% instances), ga-dep/csubj:cleft (1; 1% instances), ga-dep/parataxis (1; 1% instances)

Children of SCONJ nodes belong to 11 different parts of speech: PUNCT (93; 50% instances), NOUN (25; 14% instances), VERB (24; 13% instances), PRON (9; 5% instances), ADJ (8; 4% instances), SCONJ (8; 4% instances), CONJ (7; 4% instances), ADP (5; 3% instances), ADV (3; 2% instances), PROPN (2; 1% instances), X (1; 1% instances)


SCONJ in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]