flat
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Universal
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The flat relation plays a similar role to the
compound one, and its exact usage also varies on a language-by-language basis. However, it is most frequently used to connect the various elements of proper names to one another, including titles and honorifics.
Some examples in SUD_English-EWT:
pattern { X -[flat]-> Y }
English
English
The flat relation can also be used to link individual elements of numbers to one another.
French
The syntactic relation flat is mainly used with two deep syntactic features:
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@name in proper names
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@foreign in expressions in a different langauge
See
table for more flat based relations.