Questions tagged [parsing]
This tag is for questions about the form, function, and syntactic relationships of each word in a sentence.
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"Where" : is there a meal where you eat the same thing every day? What?
I came across this question where "where" is used as the pronoun of place in time.
I don't understand the function
Is there a meal where you eat the same thing every day? what?
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Parsing of the sentence "I have been happily married for nine years."
I have been happily married for nine years.
I want parsing of this sentence.
Married I think adjective and happily is an Adverb.
Here happily mean I think -In a happy manner
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"London is an easy place to get lost in." — What is the object of "in" here: "an easy place", "a place" or "place"?
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (pages 1248-1249), "hollow to-infinitivals licensed by an attributive adjective":
[i] London is an easy place to get lost in __.
[ii] The price ...
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"<Long> a proponent of government health insurance, he pointed out that millions of Americans have no health insurance at all."
cambridge.org:
(1) Long a proponent of government health insurance, he pointed out that millions of Americans have no health insurance at all.
I can't understand the grammar of using "long" ...
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"the much more common" vs "much the more common"
from ell.stackexchange.com:
(1) Of the two examples, #2 is the much more common.
(2) Of the two examples, #2 is much the more common.
Am I right that?:
"Much" in (1) and (2) is an adverb.
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Is "from her" modifying the flower or the verb buy?
No one wanted to buy a flower from her.
"wanted" is transitive, flower is the direct object and I'm a little confused about the modifier "from her".
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Where is the object of "into" in "a sauce for dipping pieces of food into"?
Wikipedia.org doesn't mark "into" as a preposition that can be used intransitively, i. e. "into" must always have an object.
Here are my three phrases where "a thick cold ...
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parsing "The shop stocks everything from cigarettes to recycled loo paper."
thefreedictionary.com:
(1) The shop stocks everything from cigarettes to recycled loo paper.
Am I right that?:
The noun phrase "everything from cigarettes to recycled loo paper" is the ...
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Could you parse "She was younger than any of us had figured on"?
an example of "to figure on something" from ldoceonline.com:
She was younger than any of us had figured on.
So, the phrase is "to figure on X".
But where is the X in this sentence?
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What part of speech is "free" in "Free was the best deal I could get"?
Free was the best deal I could get.
A subject should be a noun, but free is an adjective, which confuses me. If this sentence is correct and natural, then I have two guesses:
First, there is an ...
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Parsing "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length" [closed]
This is the title of a Robert Frost poem:
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
I am having difficulties in understanding the correct interpretation.
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I am having difficulties in understanding the sentence, (Parse this sentence please.) [closed]
Nothing worth having comes easy...
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Can a "because" clause, or any clause, be the subject of a sentence?
(Just) because I am free doesn't mean I want to do homework.
I made this sentence and it sound right to me; adding “just” makes me feel more certain. However, I can't parse it. I thought "...
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methods of parsing passive voice
The show was watched by five million people.
Am I right there are two approaches to parsing this sentence?:
first approach:
"Was watched" is a verb.
The verb "was watched" is ...
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parsing "She wasn't at her best, it has to be said."
A sentence from "extra examples" of item 4 on oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com:
(1) She wasn't at her best, it has to be said.
I would like to parse this sentence.
Is "it" a personal ...
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Can I use "parse" and "parsing" as nouns?
Can I use the word "parse" (any type of analysis in linguistics) as a noun?
For example:
a morphological parse
a phonetic parse
a sentence parse
a word parse
a text parse
(1) We need to do ...
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parse of "stopped"
Where are you? (on the phone)
(1) I'm stopped by police.
(2) I'm stopped at a red light.
(1):
"Am stopped" is a verb.
"Stopped" is a past participle.
(2):
"Am" is a verb.
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Is "life is too short to count calories" grammatically wrong?
I am too tired to talk.
I am the actual agent of the action "talk".
Life is too short to count calories.
However, life is not the actual agent of the action "count". I think it ...
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That's what I take it to mean
A: Does it mean ... ?
B: Yes. That's what I take it to mean.
I can't understand at all the way the sentence "That's what I take it to mean" is made up.
Is "that" the object of &...
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"I read <more> books <more> than magazines." — parsing
(1a) I read books more than magazines. — correct
"More" in (1a) modifies "read".
(1b) I read books more than I do/did magazines. — correct
Since (1b) exists, then "than" ...
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Is an adverb fit for this sentence/phrase?
In the NY Times headline:
"The Fight to Save New York’s Extravagantly ’80s Subway Entrance"
is the adverb Extravagantly a correct use there? shouldn't it be Extravagant instead?
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"Go" a punctual verb？
Is the word "to go" a punctual verb？ I don't think so because we can say:
It took him five days to go to xxx.
But why we can't say:
I have been going to New York for five days
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Understanding descriptions from novel
From the beginning of House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Chimneys and turrets, belvederes and clock towers punctuated the
haphazard, dinosaur-backed roofline. Some parts of the house were only one or ...
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Is "worsening" an adjective in this ocntext? [closed]
The headline in NY times is:
"Why Climate Change Makes It Harder to Fight Fire With Fire
Worsening wildfires have led officials to embrace planned fires to thin forests ahead of disaster. But the ...
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What is "Them" related to in this text?
in the NY times headline I found this:
"Traffic deaths in New York City have risen to the highest level in eight years. A new campaign aims to shock them into slowing down."
what is "...
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'He walked off embarrassed and sad'
He walked off embarrassed and sad. (I can't remember where I found this sentence as I then just noted it without citing the source to ask later).
'Embarrassed' and 'sad' are functioning as Subjective ...
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How to use a gerund+infinitive structure like "trying to win"
While reading a book, I met a sentence with a curious grammar construction which got me utterly confused. Here it is :
There is a curious corollary to the principle of trying to win the big pots ...
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Function of "as" in "Something is as what we would like it to be"
Today I've come across an English sentence that is "Something is as we would like it to be."
According to English grammar and the context, I think "as" there can only be an adverb ...
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In the sentence "The table was set for lunch" is "set" a verb or an adjective?
The table was set for lunch
I want to see if this is a passive sentence. I think if the word "set" is a verb it is passive, but if “set” is an adjective it would be an active one.
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phrases that work as verb or verbal phrases working as adjective?
In the example:
1 - "The most beautiful and perfect experiences of my life all happened when I was trippin' balls."
I belive "trippin' balls" is a reference to some thing being ...
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What does "in abundance" modify in "These dogs have silliness in abundance"?
These dogs have silliness in abundance.
What does "in abundance" modify? Is it "have" or "silliness"
Someone told me that it modifies a noun, but I don't agree.
Is there ...
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Are "open" and "empty" adverbs in "The food bins are broken open and empty."?
The food bins are broken open and empty.
The words "open" and "empty" in the above mentioned sentence seem like adjectives, but in another sense they modify the verb "broken&...
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Syntax.Analysis of the sentence
She didn’t want to hear that this was the platform he usually sat on to wait for the cheaper train, she didn’t want to become part of his ri-diculous pattern of commuting from this new home to get ...
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Syntactic analysis of the sentence
He lay still for a long time in the foreign softness of the bed, unable to figure out where he was.
Can you help me with this sentence?
I understand that still is certainly an adverb, but is ' for a ...
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Role of 'that' in this sentence?
I am recently reading an English book to improve my English skills.
In the book I am now reading, there is a sentence,
There is nothing Hypnos and Morepheus can do to soothe your aching body, to calm ...
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What does "since" refer to in this text?
The sentence is:
A bygone sweetheart is an early romantic interest remembered by someone who's since lived a long life.
Is the "since' referring to the moment of remembrance of "early ...
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What is the syntactic function of the phrase 'in a tribe' (and it's constituents) in the sentence 'We live in a tribe.'?
Also, would it be the same if we say 'We live in a city.' or 'We live in a society.'?
What kind of verb is live here?
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What are the subjects and predicates of the clauses in "There is the mountain that we are going to climb."?
What would be the subjects and the predicates of the following sentence:
There is the mountain that we are going to climb.
Independent clause: There is the mountain
Dependent clause: that we are ...
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What is the function of the word "possible" in "interpret this information in the quickest way possible"?
This is where most people are impeded from being an iconoclast.
For example, when confronted with information streaming from the eyes,
the brain will interpret this information in the quickest way ...
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What is "more carefully than I do" in "My wife drives more carefully than I do", grammatically?
Consider this sentence:
My wife drives more carefully than I do.
I want to understand the grammatical role of the phrase,
more carefully than I do
Is it an adverb, and adverb phrase, an adverb ...
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Should I rephrase this sentence? [closed]
Sun always rises, and it always rises from the East.
This is what I’m trying to convey.
Sun always rises from the East.
Can I just say like this, or should I rephrase it under the consideration ...
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predicate identification
What are the subject and predicate of the following sentence? Is it grammatically correct? If not, how would you fix it?
The Castle Fire ignited in August when dry brush sparked by a lightning storm ...
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to be more responsive
I think we need to recognize leaders when they reverse course to be more responsive to what public-health authorities say is necessary to protect people.
Source: Nature Chelsea Clinton urges global ...
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What is the subject of “With great power comes great responsibility.”?
With great power comes great responsibility.
What is the subject of the sentence? Is “With great power” the subject? Could you please give me more sentences written in that grammar?
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What parts of speech are "together" and "at the park"?
What parts of speech do you think 'together' and 'at the park' are and what do they describe in this sentence:
Nobody saw Anna and John together at the park.
I'm thinking 'together' is a adverb, and ...
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the usage of "behold" here confuses me [closed]
On the rooftop behold a 300-meter landscape garden divided into zones including a 'pause area' for quiet contemplation.
Since behold means see, I would write: On the rooftop we can behold a 300-meter ...
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What does the phrase "Oh won't you bring me all the things I need" from the song mean?
What does the phrase "Oh won't you bring me all the things I need" from the song mean? And what is the grammar behind it?
The verse is:
Oh won't you bring me all the things I need
Like ...
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the replanning and rebuilding of cities to stem
The nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries saw devastating outbreaks
of cholera, typhoid, typhus and influenza in European cities.
Physicians such as Jon Snow, from England, and Rudolf Virchow, of
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What part of speech does "submitting" belong to in "I have finished submitting..."?
My question is - what part of the speech does "submitting" belong to in the following statement:
I have finished submitting my assignment.
Note: I am aware that this is a poorly ...
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In the sentence "I went home because it was getting late." the part of "it was getting late" is the sentence pattern S - TV - DO or S - LV - PA?
So, in the sentence "I went home because it was getting late." Is the the sentence pattern of "it was getting late" is (Subject - Transitive Verb - Direct Object) or (Subject - ...
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