api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: json
dataset:
  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[2]: You need a definition of a syntactic term for parsing or teaching.,You are analyzing how the parts of a sentence relate.
  caveats[2]: 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[3]: parts-of-speech,morphological-processes,language-families
  category: Linguistics
  category_slug: linguistics
  tags: "linguistics,syntax,grammar"
  view_count: 0
  entry_count: 19
  fields[2]{section,field,type,example}:
    data,term,string,Subject
    data,description,string,The noun phrase about which the sentence says s…
data[19]{term,description}:
  Subject,The noun phrase about which the sentence says something.
  Predicate,The part of the sentence containing the verb and objects.
  Object,The noun phrase affected by the verb.
  Clause,A group of words containing a subject and predicate.
  Phrase,A group of words that functions as a single unit.
  Modifier,A word or phrase that describes or limits another.
  Complement,A word or phrase that completes the predicate.
  Head,"The word that determines the category and main properties of a phrase, such as the noun in a noun phrase."
  Argument,"A phrase required by a predicate to complete its meaning, such as the object of a transitive verb."
  Adjunct,"An optional phrase that adds information such as time, place or manner."
  Noun Phrase,"A phrase headed by a noun, such as 'the old house'."
  Verb Phrase,"A phrase headed by a verb, including its objects and modifiers."
  Transitive Verb,A verb that takes a direct object.
  Intransitive Verb,A verb that does not take a direct object.
  Agreement,"Matching of a word's form to another, such as subject-verb agreement in number."
  Passive Voice,"A construction in which the subject receives the action, as in 'The ball was thrown'."
  Subordinate Clause,A clause that depends on a main clause and cannot stand alone.
  Coordination,Linking elements of equal status with conjunctions such as 'and' or 'or'.
  Relative Clause,"A clause that modifies a noun, introduced by who, which or that."