dependency grammar
E499688
Dependency grammar is a syntactic theory that analyzes sentence structure in terms of binary relations between words, focusing on how each word depends on a governing head rather than on phrase-structure constituents.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| dependency grammar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5170063 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: dependency grammar Context triple: [operator grammar, relatedTo, dependency grammar]
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A.
Gramatiko
Gramatiko is the grammar section of the Fundamento de Esperanto, outlining the core grammatical rules of the Esperanto language.
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B.
General and Rational Grammar
General and Rational Grammar is a 17th-century French linguistic treatise from the Port-Royal school that seeks to explain the universal, rational principles underlying all human languages.
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C.
Subjacency
Subjacency is a syntactic constraint in generative grammar that limits how far elements can move in a sentence, helping to explain why certain long-distance dependencies are ungrammatical.
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D.
Grammatiko
Grammatiko is a village in the East Attica region of Greece, known for its traditional character and proximity to the Marathon area.
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E.
X-bar theory
X-bar theory is a framework in generative syntax that models the hierarchical structure of phrases using a uniform, layered projection of heads, intermediates, and maximal phrases.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: dependency grammar Target entity description: Dependency grammar is a syntactic theory that analyzes sentence structure in terms of binary relations between words, focusing on how each word depends on a governing head rather than on phrase-structure constituents.
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A.
Gramatiko
Gramatiko is the grammar section of the Fundamento de Esperanto, outlining the core grammatical rules of the Esperanto language.
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B.
General and Rational Grammar
General and Rational Grammar is a 17th-century French linguistic treatise from the Port-Royal school that seeks to explain the universal, rational principles underlying all human languages.
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C.
Subjacency
Subjacency is a syntactic constraint in generative grammar that limits how far elements can move in a sentence, helping to explain why certain long-distance dependencies are ungrammatical.
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D.
Grammatiko
Grammatiko is a village in the East Attica region of Greece, known for its traditional character and proximity to the Marathon area.
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E.
X-bar theory
X-bar theory is a framework in generative syntax that models the hierarchical structure of phrases using a uniform, layered projection of heads, intermediates, and maximal phrases.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
linguistic theory
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syntactic theory ⓘ theory of grammar ⓘ |
| appliedIn |
syntactic annotation schemes
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treebanks ⓘ |
| appliesTo | sentence structure analysis ⓘ |
| assumes |
a single root element per clause
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every word except one depends on another word ⓘ |
| basedOn | dependency relation instead of constituency ⓘ |
| canAllow | multiple dependents per head ⓘ |
| comparedWith | constituency grammar ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | phrase structure grammar ⓘ |
| distinguishes | arguments and adjuncts via dependency relations ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
governing head of each word
ⓘ
word-to-word syntactic relations ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
binary relations between words
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dependency relations ⓘ head-dependent relations ⓘ |
| formalizedIn | dependency parsing algorithms ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
dependency tree
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dependent ⓘ governor ⓘ head ⓘ non-projectivity ⓘ projectivity ⓘ root of a sentence ⓘ subcategorization ⓘ valency ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Functional Generative Description
NERFINISHED
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Link Grammar NERFINISHED ⓘ Meaning–Text Theory NERFINISHED ⓘ Universal Dependencies framework (as an annotation scheme) NERFINISHED ⓘ Word Grammar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Lucien Tesnière’s valency theory ⓘ |
| models | syntactic structure without phrasal nodes ⓘ |
| oftenAssumes | one head per dependent ⓘ |
| originatedFromWorkOf | Lucien Tesnière NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedBy | directed acyclic graphs over words ⓘ |
| representsStructureAs | tree of dependencies ⓘ |
| treats |
function words often as dependents of content words
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verbs as central heads of clauses ⓘ |
| usedIn |
computational linguistics
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natural language processing ⓘ parsing ⓘ syntax ⓘ |
| usefulFor |
cross-linguistic syntactic comparison
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free word order languages ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: dependency grammar Description of subject: Dependency grammar is a syntactic theory that analyzes sentence structure in terms of binary relations between words, focusing on how each word depends on a governing head rather than on phrase-structure constituents.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.