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nxPUs

Tree for sentence initial vocatives, anchored by a comma:
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(520)
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.


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