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Syntactic analyzation of "It is true that there are some people even so utterly without imagination that they cannot take a joke; such as that grave man of Scotland who was at last plainly told by a funny friend quite out of patience, “Why, you wouldn’t take a joke if it were fired at you out of a cannon!” “Sir,” replied the Scot, with sound reasoning and grave thought, “Sir, you are absurd. You cannot fire a joke out of a cannon!”" This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	It	Personal Pronoun.
2.	is	Verb	3rd person sing.
3.	true	Adjective
4.	that	Preposition
5.	there	Existential There.
6.	are	Verb	Sing Present
7.	some	Determiner
8.	people	Noun	Plural
9.	even	Adverb.
10.	so	Adverb.
11.	utterly	Adverb.
12.	without	Preposition
13.	imagination	Noun	Singular
14.	that	Preposition
15.	they	Personal Pronoun.
16.	can	Modal
17.	not	Adverb.
18.	take	Verb	Base Form.
19.	a	Determiner
20.	joke	Noun	Singular
21.	;	:
22.	such	Adjective
23.	as	Preposition
24.	that	Determiner
25.	grave	Adjective
26.	man	Noun	Singular
27.	of	Preposition
28.	Scotland	Proper Noun	Singular
29.	who	wh-pronoun.
30.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
31.	at	Preposition
32.	last	Adjective
33.	plainly	Adverb.
34.	told	Verb	Past Participle.
35.	by	Preposition
36.	a	Determiner
37.	funny	Adjective
38.	friend	Noun	Singular
39.	quite	Adverb.
40.	out	Preposition
41.	of	Preposition
42.	patience	Noun	Singular
43.	,
44.	“	Noun	Singular
45.	Why	wh-abverb.
46.	,
47.	you	Personal Pronoun.
48.	wouldn	Verb	Sing Present
49.	’	Cardinal Digit
50.	t	Noun	Singular
51.	take	Verb	Base Form.
52.	a	Determiner
53.	joke	Noun	Singular
54.	if	Preposition
55.	it	Personal Pronoun.
56.	were	Verb	Past Tense.
57.	fired	Verb	Past Participle.
58.	at	Preposition
59.	you	Personal Pronoun.
60.	out	Preposition
61.	of	Preposition
62.	a	Determiner
63.	cannon	Noun	Singular
64.	!	.
65.	”	Foreign Word
66.	“	Foreign Word
67.	Sir	Proper Noun	Singular
68.	,
69.	”	Proper Noun	Singular
70.	replied	Verb	Past Tense.
71.	the	Determiner
72.	Scot	Proper Noun	Singular
73.	,
74.	with	Preposition
75.	sound	Adjective
76.	reasoning	Noun	Singular
77.	and	Conjunction
78.	grave	Adjective
79.	thought	Noun	Singular
80.	,
81.	“	Proper Noun	Singular
82.	Sir	Proper Noun	Singular
83.	,
84.	you	Personal Pronoun.
85.	are	Verb	Sing Present
86.	absurd	Adjective
87.	.	.
88.	You	Personal Pronoun.
89.	can	Modal
90.	not	Adverb.
91.	fire	Verb	Base Form.
92.	a	Determiner
93.	joke	Noun	Singular
94.	out	Preposition
95.	of	Preposition
96.	a	Determiner
97.	cannon	Noun	Singular
98.	!	.
99.	”

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