dependency grammar

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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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instanceOf linguistic theory
syntactic theory
theory of grammar
appliedIn syntactic annotation schemes
treebanks
appliesTo sentence structure analysis
assumes a single root element per clause
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
dependency relations
head-dependent relations
formalizedIn dependency parsing algorithms
hasConcept dependency tree
dependent
governor
head
non-projectivity
projectivity
root of a sentence
subcategorization
valency
hasVariant Functional Generative Description NERFINISHED
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
verbs as central heads of clauses
usedIn computational linguistics
natural language processing
parsing
syntax
usefulFor cross-linguistic syntactic comparison
free word order languages

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