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208 ENGLISH GRAlIIMAH,
SYNTACTICAL PARSING.
983. SYNTACTICAL PARSING includes etymological, and
adds to it a statement of the relation in which words
"tand to each other, and the rules according to which
they are combined in phrases and sentences.
Before parsing a sentence syntactically, it should ti"st be analyzed, as
directed (658), and exemplified (659).
MODEL OF SY~T.ACTICAL PARSING.
" The minutest plant or animal, if attentively examineu, affords a thousand
wonders, and obliges us to admire and adore the Omnipotent hand by
which it was created."
This sentence contains all the parts of speech cxcept the interjection.
It is !JllrBed etymologically (581 and 5S~), and analyzcd (659-7), which
see. It may now be parsed syntactically, as follows:-
J.'/w ••••.•. is the DEFIXITE AR'rlCLE; it belongs to plant or animal (711),
and shows these words to be limited.-RuLE Ill, 2. "The
article the is put," &c. (707).
minutest ... . is an ADJEOTIVE, compared here by er and est, superlative, and
qualifies plant or animal.-RuLE n., 1." An adjective or
participle," &c., (676).
plant ..... . is a XOL'N, neuter, in the nominative singular, the subject of
affords and obliges.-RuLE VI., " The subject of a finite verb,"
&c. (760).
or •........ is a DISJUNCTn'E CONJUNCTlO:-I, connecting as alternates plant
and animal (569).-RuLE :XI:X. "Conjunctions connect," &c.
(944).
animal •.. . is a NOUN, neuter, in the nominative singular-same as plant
-and connected with it by or.
if ......... is a conjunction; it connects its clause with the preceding as
a condition.-RuLE XIX. "Conjunctions connect," &c. (944).
it .•....... (understood) is a third PERSONAL PRONOUN, neuter, in the
nominative singular; it stands for plant or animal.-RuLE
IV., 2. c, When a pronoun refers," &c. (730); and is the
subject of is examined.-RuLE YI. "The subject of a finite
verb," ('760).
is examined. is a VERB, transitive, regular," in the present indicative, passive,
expressing an act done to its subject it, with which it
agrees.-RuLE VIII. ".!. verb agrees," &c. (776) .
• Oonjueating i, here omilted for brevity, it bci 19 unnecessary, because the verb is
mentloned as regula, un, note).