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Using "by" for something that is not the performer of an actionnon-actors

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In most treebanks, sentences are annotated either (by or with ?) dependency structure or phrase structure depending on the syntax properties of the language.

The dependency structure is not the doer of the annotation, can I still use "by"? Should I only use "by" for the doeractor of the action?

Using "by" for something that is not the performer of an action

I wrote:

In most treebanks, sentences are annotated either (by or with ?) dependency structure or phrase structure depending on the syntax properties of the language.

The dependency structure is not the doer of the annotation, can I still use "by"? Should I only use "by" for the doer of the action?

Using "by" for non-actors

I wrote:

In most treebanks, sentences are annotated either (by or with ?) dependency structure or phrase structure depending on the syntax properties of the language.

The dependency structure is not the doer of the annotation, can I still use "by"? Should I only use "by" for the actor of the action?

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Ahmad
Ahmad
  • 9k
  • 33
  • 108
  • 203

Using "by" for something that is not the performer of an action

I wrote:

In most treebanks, sentences are annotated either (by or with ?) dependency structure or phrase structure depending on the syntax properties of the language.

The dependency structure is not the doer of the annotation, can I still use "by"? Should I only use "by" for the doer of the action?