Complement relation without subrel
Warning
Until 2026, the complement of
ADPandSCONJwere annotated with the relationcomp:obj. In version 2.18, it is still the case and it will change in version 2.19 (November 2026). See the difference on Sequoia for instance (version 2.18 and latest): Grew-match
Main usage
The comp relation is mainly used to introduce the complement of ADP and SCONJ (and also more rarely of PART of CCONJ).
Examples with ADP
Examples with SCONJ
In the previous example, there is also an example of comp linking the PART to and the VERB make.
Other usage
The comp relation (without subrel) is used when one has difficulty deciding between comp:obj and comp:obl.
In French, the comp label is frequently used to annotate reflexive pronouns and other pronominal clitics which contribute to the formation of pronominal verbs when it is difficult to determine the role of the pronoun.
In constructions such as Il s’en sort (en: He’s doing well) the pronoun se no longer provides the semantic value of an argument of the verb.
However, it fits so well into the typical argument structure that it is hard to recognize that it cannot be de-pronominalized.
For this reason, it is annotated with the comp relation.
Deep syntactic features
@pass
In the case of passive reflexive constructions, the reflexive pronoun is attached with comp and the deep syntactic feature @pass.
@expl
We can also have the deep syntactic feature @expl for the label comp.
More information can be found on the French pronomional verb page or on the page about the annotation of the idiom il y a.