possessionof

possessionof is a label used in linguistic annotation to denote a possession relationship between two noun phrases, typically realized by a possessive construction or an of-phrase. It marks which entity is possessed and which entity possesses it. The label appears in semantic role labeling and dependency-annotation schemes that separate possession from other relations.

In English, possession can be expressed as a possessive determiner or clitic (John's book) or an 'of'-prepositional phrase (the book of John). In annotation, possessionof often links the possessor to the possessed, for example in the phrase the color of the car, with 'car' as possessor and 'color' as possessed.

Cross-linguistic variation: some languages encode possession with a genitive case, possessive suffixes, or noun-noun compounding, rather than an English-style of-phrase. The same semantic relation may be represented by different grammatical means.

Notes: The exact label 'possessionof' is not universal; some schemes use Possessor/Possession, Genitive, or similar tags. The broader concept, however, is to identify the holder in a possession relation for purposes of parsing, information extraction, and linguistic analysis.