api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: yaml
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…
  category: Linguistics
  category_slug: linguistics
  tags: linguistics,syntax,grammar
  view_count: 41
  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.