Questions tagged [syntax-trees]
Graphical representations of hierarchical analyses of grammatical relations. Requests to make syntax trees are off-topic.
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Drawing case specified trees for english gerunds
I'm reading Adger's Core Syntax book and am having a tough time with Exercise 1 of the functional categories chapter.
The exercise is about gerunds. Gerunds are specified by the form of suffixing -...
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Drawing trees for DP's and Sentences
I'm reading Adger's book Core Syntax and am having trouble with one of the sentences in the last exercise in the Functional Categories chapter. The task is to draw and annotate the tree (bar level and ...
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What is the proper terminology for “I touch” in this sentence?
I am trying to diagram this sentence for a personal project:
Everything I touch with tenderness pricks like a bramble.
From what I understand, Everything is the subject, and pricks is the ...
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How does one deal with sentences starting with a connective?
While drawing syntax trees for spoken language and not ideal languages, how does one handle conjunctions and other particles appearing initially in sentences like:
And that is that. (After a long ...
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Understanding the property of complementhood
In the following sentence:
They can both speak French.
How can French be the complement of the V-bar speak French?
I have the following definition of the complement:
A constituent X is the ...
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Syntax tree for this sentence [closed]
I am trying to find best way to get a syntax tree for this sentence:
Planting seeds helps you grow your farm
I thought of this:
-------- S1 ---------
| |
--...
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How do we set comparative adverbs, from expressions like “more than x” on the syntax tree?
I'm trying to figure something out from Portuguese, but if you can answer me that based on English, it will help a lot. Thanks.
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“there” and “everything” in linguistics is a “pronoun” or “noun”?
Regarding to drawing a syntax tree, "there" and "everything" in linguistics is a "pronoun" or "noun"?
For example,
1. There is an apple.
2. It is not everything.
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How does Stanford SemgrexPattern tree matcher work?
I recently got a chance to look at Stanford's SemgrexPattern. https://nlp.stanford.edu/nlp/javadoc/javanlp/edu/stanford/nlp/semgraph/semgrex/SemgrexPattern.html
I understand that it is used to match ...
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How do you draw a syntax tree for a sentence with a dummy subject?
I encounter difficulties when drawing a syntax tree for a sentence of expletive contruction. Should I mark the dummy subject "there" as a noun? Thx
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If there is a version of linguistics that doesn't break sentences into tree structures
All linguistics I've seen breaks sentences into tree structures like this:
The gloss is sort of a more flattened, chain-like structure, but it is much less formal than the syntax tree:
Wondering if ...
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Parsing a sentence with the noun as the Predicator
Can the sentence "That professor is a syntactician," in which the DP "a syntactician" is the predicator, be parsed like a normal sentence, using x-bar theory, the Predicate Shell and the DP Hypothesis?...
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how to draw a tree digram in syntax [closed]
I am having trouble drawing a syntax tree for 2 sentences and I would appreciate it if someone could help me.
The sentences are:
a. Where will you put your car?
b. Dave told Bill the rumor that John ...
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Drawing D structure trees [closed]
Can someone help me draw a D structure tree for: Is the cake certain to have been eaten by the students?
Also if you could explain the reasoning behind why its drawn like that so i could get some ...
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Prepositional phrases ‘fronting’ a sentence
Hi Everybody (please help),
I’m having trouble deciphering how to diagram a sentence with the adjunctive prepositional phrase at the front of the sentence. As from ‘The boy found the cat in the ...
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Linear order preserving syntactic trees
Two questions:
Is the syntactic tree notation supposed to be
Linear order preserving in general
Linear order preserving for English
Generally linear order preserving for English
None of the above
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What software is used to make these X-bar trees?
I'm looking for software for illustrating tree diagrams am wondering whether anyone knows which was used to create the one in the post linked below.
I have tried messaging the author, but had no ...
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Can SBAR be the first tag of a sentence?
I am new to parse trees, and if I understand correctly, SBAR indicates the beginning of a subordinate clause.
From Penn Treebank II Tags:
SBAR - Clause introduced by a (possibly empty) ...
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X-bar tree of the sentence “Why would she not have actually been giving him back the present yesterday?”
I'm having trouble with a particular x bar tree. We're mostly using Liliane Haegeman & Jacqueline Guéron's "English Grammar – A Generative Perspective" as our bible, with some adjustments, e.g. DP'...
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Syntax tree help? [closed]
I have one sentence that is an optional practice question for my syntax class that I just cannot figure out. It's ambiguous as far as where the PP falls but I hope someone can help anyways by giving ...
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How are head nodes of a tree determined?
Below is a tree-representation of an action sequencing hierarchy, taken from Fischmeister et al 2016 (Journal Cortex).
Could anyone explain (the paper does not) by which rationale the different nodes ...
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Semantic parsing vs Propositional Representation
Propositional representation is explained on Wikipedia.
How is semantic parsing different from propositional representation? Or is propositional representation the next step after you do semantic ...
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How do I draw these syntax structure trees? [closed]
I couldn't figure out how to draw the syntax tree diagrams for these sentences. Any help would be great
Who said that John is nice?
A teacher in my school said the children disliked him.
What do you ...
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Description of various placements of PPs in a syntax tree
How would you describe the difference in modifications a PP can make to a VP i.e.
[I want to visit them][before this time]
versus
[I want to [visit them before this time]]
I understand there is ...
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What is the difference between vPs and v*Ps?
Why do I sometimes come across a label like v* instead of v in the literature? As I understood, it is the same thing.
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Constituent borders
Let us imagine there to exist, for instance, a DP. We always observe the only head D on the left or the right of the phrase (depending upon the direction of branching). But every constituent naturally ...
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Is a complement of a verb treated any differently than an adjunct of a verb in a tree diagram?
When you draw a tree diagram in phrase structure grammars, should you draw a complement of a verb any differently than an adjunct of a verb by using different tree structures?
(1) I slept on the ...
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How do contractions work in syntactic movement?
Specifically when the surface structure uncontracted would be ungrammatical. Eg: "Don't turtles live forever?" (Do turtles not live forever/*Do not turtles live forever).
EDIT - Sorry if it's broad ...
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Auxiliaries in generative grammar
In a course of introduction to Generative Grammar, my teacher told that auxiliary (Aux in the tree diagram) is the element that comes before the subject (NP) in an interrogative sentence.
But I ...
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How do you coreference a possesive pronouns with an x-bar tree?
Following Chomsky's linguistic theory (The Minimalist Program), r-expressions must be free, where free means that nothing should c-command it such that the indices have a non null intersection (if I ...
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What is the x-bar tree of 'I am proud of my students'? (having trouble with proud)
I am having trouble attaching the 'proud' to the 'am'. 'Am' is a verb and 'proud' is an adjective for the noun 'I', so should come as an adjunct for 'I', but here it would have to somehow come from ...
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X-bar: Put 'Where' in a Determiner Phrase or in an Adverb Phrase?
I'm currently working on an introductory guide to X-bar Theory for a group of students, and was wondering whether to classify a specific part as a Determiner Phrase or an Adverb Phrase. I have ...
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How do noun-noun compounds fit into a noun phrase in syntax?
I have a question regarding attributive nouns, or noun-noun compounds, and how they are integrated into syntactic rules for NP formation. Typically, the rule given in textbooks for forming a NP is the ...
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How to analyze an NP with two determiners?
I have a phrase and I have to draw a tree structure of it.
"These many awful photographs" is the phrase.
The only thing that I don't get is the "many".
"These" is DP, "awful" is the adjective, and "...
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semantics of bizarre usages in view of a second-language-speaker
Generative tradition, as far as I (an amateur) understand, revolves around the 'poverty of the stimulus' argument.
So I can understand why I clearly get the meaning 'she shelved her books' or at ...
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How is it possible for a single sentence to have both a raising to subject verb and an object control verb?
Basically what it says in the title. How would a sentence with both be parsed?
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How to diagram a sentence containing a sentence adverb? [closed]
There is a traditional representation of a sentence's parts and it's relation called Kellogs-Reeds diagramming method,which is not used in linguistics.
There are also linguistic representations like ...
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Representing knowledge extracted from output of dependency parsing
I am working on a problem to represent knowledge extracted from a paragraph and rank it to produce abstractive summaries. I have implemented dependency parsing using Stanford NLP, which gives dot ...
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Syntax Trees examples
I just try syntax trees and realize that I have a few problems. I have a problem especially with two examples because I am very unsure how to handle the cases.
In case 1, I do not know how to deal ...
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Phrasal verb? Adjunct vs complement?
I'd really appreciate some help with my understanding.
My main confusion sprouts from the following sentence:
Obviously, this calls for a thorough examination of the facts.
My first problem is ...
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Semantics Proofing - Syntax tree
I'm currently doing some work for compositional semantics. But in order to do the proof, I think it would be easier if I created a syntax tree. I'm just completely hopeless with syntax though and ...
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How are to-infinitive clauses treated in x-bar syntax trees?
For example:
The man refused to send any letters to that place.
This is what I have so far from the Syntax Tree Generator.
What should replace the X there?
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a question about grammar and syntax [closed]
can anyone provide me a short critique for the following analyses of the sentence. About their advantages and disadvantages and provide evidence if possible!!thank you.
I have no idea about this.
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Where to attach 'of too much cholesterol' while drawing the syntax tree (x-bar theory)
I would really appreciate if somebody could help me and provide a short explanation. The sentence is as follows:
The latest research on dieting always warns people about the dangers of too much ...
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How to determine when an additional X-bar or XP can be used
In diagramming sentences, I never seem to understand when it's permissible to add an additional X-bar (X') or XP segment to a tree. Is there a rule for knowing when an additional branch of the same X ...
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Help with constituency?
I am learning syntactic theory from the book "English Syntax and Argumentation." I got decent understanding of S, NP, VP, I. I do not use DP or TP because the textbook does not use it. However, I have ...
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How should “at some time” be tagged in Universal Dependencies framework?
I want to tag a sentence
Jones was unemployed at some time before he graduated.
with UD tags. I'm not sure how to tag at some time.
Stanford parser suggests the reading:
case (time-6, at-4)
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X Bar Phrase Structure Question
I'm running into a bit of trouble constructing a tree for the following Lakota sentence:
Wičháša ki hokšíla ki hená mathó wã wãyákapi ki slolyé
man the boy the those bear a see ...
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Are there right-branching agglutinative languages?
The major agglutinative languages like Turkish and Japanese are also notable for being almost strictly left-branching, much more so than, say, English is right-branching.
Is it a coincidence, or is ...
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Automated wh movement for turning an answer into the form of a question
I am not a linguist but I want to know if there are any parsing tools in existence that can help me do the following kind of thing:
Given a sentence like the one below I would like to generate many ...
