diff --git a/_en/dep/nmod-unmarked.md b/_en/dep/nmod-unmarked.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b23a71446c --- /dev/null +++ b/_en/dep/nmod-unmarked.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +--- +layout: relation +title: 'nmod:unmarked' +shortdef : 'unmarked nominal modifier' +udver: '2' +--- + +This relation is a subtype of the [nmod]() relation that applies +when a non-possessive modifier within a nominal takes the form of a +nominal lacking a preposition (a.k.a. a noun phrase). It is +"unmarked" in that, unlike most `nmod`s, it has no adposition or +genitive marking. + +`nmod:unmarked` merges two older subtypes, `nmod:npmod` and `nmod:tmod`. +It has a clause-level countepart: [obl:unmarked](). + +Examples include: + +(i) temporal modifiers + +~~~ sdparse +Are you free for lunch some day this week ? +nmod:unmarked(lunch, day) +det(day, some) +nmod:unmarked(day, week) +det(week, this) +~~~ + +(ii) rate expressions with meaning equivalent to "per" + +~~~ sdparse +IBM earned $ 5 a share +nmod:unmarked($, share) +~~~ + +(iii) elementary properties + +~~~ sdparse +I want that color kitten +nmod:unmarked(kitten, color) +~~~ + +~~~ sdparse +a pizza the size of the sun +nmod:unmarked(pizza, size) +~~~ + +(iv) emphatic reflexive pronouns + +~~~ sdparse +Einstein himself was inĀ attendance. +nmod:unmarked(Einstein, himself) +~~~ + +(v) "a couple" as pre-head quantifier + +~~~ sdparse +You can have a couple/NOUN cookies. +det(couple, a) +nmod:unmarked(cookies, couple) +~~~ + +**History:** Prior to release 2.15, case (i) (temporal modifiers) +had a separate subtype called [nmod:tmod](), and [nmod:npmod]() +was used for the non-temporal ones.