{
    "api": "YAML JSON TOON Database",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "format": "json",
    "dataset": {
        "id": 2910,
        "slug": "syntactic-terms",
        "title": "Syntactic Terms",
        "description": "Basic terms for sentence structure.",
        "summary": "Terms for describing sentence structure: subject, predicate, object, clause, phrase, modifier and complement, plus adjuncts, heads, arguments, noun and verb phrases, transitivity, agreement, voice, coordination and relative clauses.",
        "use_when": [
            "You need a definition of a syntactic term for parsing or teaching.",
            "You are analyzing how the parts of a sentence relate."
        ],
        "caveats": [
            "Different syntactic theories define some terms differently; the entries give the common descriptive meaning.",
            "Examples refer to English structure; other languages mark relations by case or word order differently."
        ],
        "related": [
            "parts-of-speech",
            "morphological-processes",
            "language-families"
        ],
        "entry_count": 19,
        "fields": [
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "term",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "Subject"
            },
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "description",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "The noun phrase about which the sentence says s\u2026"
            }
        ],
        "category": "Linguistics",
        "category_slug": "linguistics",
        "tags": "linguistics,syntax,grammar",
        "view_count": 40,
        "created_at": 1793403093,
        "updated_at": 1793403093
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "term": "Subject",
            "description": "The noun phrase about which the sentence says something."
        },
        {
            "term": "Predicate",
            "description": "The part of the sentence containing the verb and objects."
        },
        {
            "term": "Object",
            "description": "The noun phrase affected by the verb."
        },
        {
            "term": "Clause",
            "description": "A group of words containing a subject and predicate."
        },
        {
            "term": "Phrase",
            "description": "A group of words that functions as a single unit."
        },
        {
            "term": "Modifier",
            "description": "A word or phrase that describes or limits another."
        },
        {
            "term": "Complement",
            "description": "A word or phrase that completes the predicate."
        },
        {
            "term": "Head",
            "description": "The word that determines the category and main properties of a phrase, such as the noun in a noun phrase."
        },
        {
            "term": "Argument",
            "description": "A phrase required by a predicate to complete its meaning, such as the object of a transitive verb."
        },
        {
            "term": "Adjunct",
            "description": "An optional phrase that adds information such as time, place or manner."
        },
        {
            "term": "Noun Phrase",
            "description": "A phrase headed by a noun, such as 'the old house'."
        },
        {
            "term": "Verb Phrase",
            "description": "A phrase headed by a verb, including its objects and modifiers."
        },
        {
            "term": "Transitive Verb",
            "description": "A verb that takes a direct object."
        },
        {
            "term": "Intransitive Verb",
            "description": "A verb that does not take a direct object."
        },
        {
            "term": "Agreement",
            "description": "Matching of a word's form to another, such as subject-verb agreement in number."
        },
        {
            "term": "Passive Voice",
            "description": "A construction in which the subject receives the action, as in 'The ball was thrown'."
        },
        {
            "term": "Subordinate Clause",
            "description": "A clause that depends on a main clause and cannot stand alone."
        },
        {
            "term": "Coordination",
            "description": "Linking elements of equal status with conjunctions such as 'and' or 'or'."
        },
        {
            "term": "Relative Clause",
            "description": "A clause that modifies a noun, introduced by who, which or that."
        }
    ]
}