Allowed values for syntactic relationships

  1. unit verb – the finite verb of a clause, linked either to its subordinating word in subordinate epxressions, or, for independent clauses, to the reserved node value root.
  2. subordinating conjunction – a subordinating word, linked to the verb of the governing clause.
  3. relative pronoun – a relative pronoun, linked both to its antecedent and to its function in the relative clause.
  4. subject – a substantive linked to the verb of its verbal expression.
  5. direct object – a substantive linked to its transitive-active verbal expression.
  6. predicate – a substantive linked to a linking verb.
  7. agent – the head of a prepositional phrase expressing agent with a/ab, linked to a passive verb.
  8. auxiliary – a form of sum linked to a participle in compound forms of the perfect-passive/future-active systems.
  9. object of preposition – a substantive linked to its governing preposition.
  10. adverbial – an adverb, or a prepositional phrase used adverbially, linked to the verb it modifies.
  11. attributive – a prepositional phrase linking to the noun it modifies.
  12. adjectival – an adjective (or gerundive) linking to the noun it agrees with.
  13. genitive – a genitive substantive linked to the noun or verb it modifies.
  14. dative – a dative substantive linked to the noun or verb it relates to.
  15. ablative – an ablative substantive linked to the noun or verb it relates to.
  16. accusative – an accusative substantive that is not the special case of a direct object, linked to the verb or noun it relates to.
  17. vocative – a vocative substantive, linked to the verb of the clause it appears in.
  18. direct quote – verbal expression of directly quoted speech, linked to the verb introducing the direct speech.
  19. aside – verb of a parenthetical aside, linked to the verb of the clause it interrupts.
  20. indirect statement – an infinitive in indirect-statement, linked to the governing verb.
  21. circumstantial participle – a participle linked to the substantive it agrees with.
  22. ablative absolute – an ablative substantive syntactically absolute from the verbal expression where it appears, linked to the verb of the verbal expression.
  23. coordinating conjunction – a coordinating conjunction, linked to the two items (nouns, adjectives, prepositional phrases, or verbal expressions) it joins.
  24. apposition – a substantive in apposition, linked to the subtantive it stands in apposition to.
  25. complementary infinitive – an infinitive completing a governing verb like volo/incipio/audeo/licet/decet, linked to that verb.
  26. praenomen – an abbreviated Roman first-name token, linked to the associated nomen or cognomen.

Two-way relationships

These relationship types require links to two tokens: relative pronoun, coordinating conjunction