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Tree for sentence initial vocatives, anchored by a comma:
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- Stanley/my boy , you were there .
The noun phrase may be anything but a pronoun, although it is most
commonly a proper noun. The clause adjoined to must be indicative or
imperative.
XTAG Project
1998-09-14