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.
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
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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 ⓘ |
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