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Predicate Clauses amendment (multiple subjects due to copular clauses)#868

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Still have to work on the pages for individual relations but welcoming comments on what's written so far.

@nschneid nschneid changed the title complex-syntax: Predicate Clauses amendment (multiple subjects due to copular clauses) Predicate Clauses amendment (multiple subjects due to copular clauses) May 8, 2022
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Do we want to list nsubj:outer and csubj:outer as "semi-mandatory" on https://universaldependencies.org/u/dep/ (https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/docs/blob/multiple-subjects/_u-overview/dep-index.md)?

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@amir-zeldes @dan-zeman if no objections I'll merge this tonight

@nschneid nschneid merged commit 1817870 into pages-source May 9, 2022
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Remove the ugly exception! @dan-zeman please check the Czech copula examples
Comment thread _en/dep/cop.md
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Prepositions may also project a cop dependent.
Prepositions may also project a `cop` dependent.

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I don't think this is a preposition, more likely an adverb or a predicative adjective (paradigmatic with "the light is bright", not "* the light is for")

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Would a better example be "the city I'm in"? (cop dependent in relative clause)

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Sure, that truly is a preposition, though in this case the reason it governs a cop is promotion. I can't think of a legitimate case where a true preposition governs a cop, not due to promotion, and not due to metalinguistic usage. If it has an object (in constituent/SUD terms), then that object would govern the cop in UD, and if it doesn't have an object, then it's not really a preposition, just maybe a homophone of one.

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You can go ahead and edit the page, either change it to the relative clause or remove it entirely

dan-zeman added a commit to UniversalDependencies/tools that referenced this pull request May 31, 2022
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