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This document explores a sentence structure featuring a boy who kicks a cat that crawls into his garbage pail on Saturday night in search of fish. It highlights the subject-verb-object (SVO) order and discusses different tree structures, including Sentence, Verb Phrase, and Noun Phrase. It serves as an introduction to the principles of syntactic analysis within the framework of statistical natural language processing. Key concepts are derived from Manning's foundational text, providing insights into sentence composition and grammatical relationships.
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often Sentence Structure The boy often kicked the cat who came crawling into his garbage pail on Saturday night looking for some fish. Subjed Verb Object boy kicked cat the the who
Tree Structure S VP NP VP--> (Something)+NP NP -> (Articles) (Adjectives)*[(Adverbs)(Adjective)](Noun) Manning Cd; Schutze H. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press 1999.