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Syntactic Theory


Step 1:

Segmentation I

Identify clause boundaries and word boundaries

In our example sentence:

  • clause boundaries: just one clause, so no problem with the clause boundaries.
  • word boundaries: history teacher is a compound!

In general: Check out the page about Basic units in syntactic analysis.

Result:

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