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Syntactic analyzation of "Their sports were of a childish, pastoral character; Chloe would neglect her flock to roam in search of day-lilies, the stalks of which she twisted into traps for locusts; while Daphnis often played from morn till eve upon a pipe, which he had formed of slender reeds, perforating them between their joints, and securing them together with soft wax." This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	Their	Possessive Pronoun.
2.	sports	Noun	Plural
3.	were	Verb	Past Tense.
4.	of	Preposition
5.	a	Determiner
6.	childish	Adjective
7.	,
8.	pastoral	Adjective
9.	character	Noun	Singular
10.	;	:
11.	Chloe	Proper Noun	Singular
12.	would	Modal
13.	neglect	Noun	Singular
14.	her	Possessive Pronoun.
15.	flock	Noun	Singular
16.	to	to.
17.	roam	Verb	Base Form.
18.	in	Preposition
19.	search	Noun	Singular
20.	of	Preposition
21.	day-lilies	Noun	Plural
22.	,
23.	the	Determiner
24.	stalks	Noun	Plural
25.	of	Preposition
26.	which	wh-determiner.
27.	she	Personal Pronoun.
28.	twisted	Verb	Past Tense.
29.	into	Preposition
30.	traps	Noun	Plural
31.	for	Preposition
32.	locusts	Noun	Plural
33.	;	:
34.	while	Preposition
35.	Daphnis	Proper Noun	Singular
36.	often	Adverb.
37.	played	Verb	Past Tense.
38.	from	Preposition
39.	morn	Noun	Singular
40.	till	Preposition
41.	eve	Noun	Singular
42.	upon	Preposition
43.	a	Determiner
44.	pipe	Noun	Singular
45.	,
46.	which	wh-determiner.
47.	he	Personal Pronoun.
48.	had	Verb	Past Tense.
49.	formed	Verb	Past Participle.
50.	of	Preposition
51.	slender	Adjective
52.	reeds	Noun	Plural
53.	,
54.	perforating	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
55.	them	Personal Pronoun.
56.	between	Preposition
57.	their	Possessive Pronoun.
58.	joints	Noun	Plural
59.	,
60.	and	Conjunction
61.	securing	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
62.	them	Personal Pronoun.
63.	together	Adverb.
64.	with	Preposition
65.	soft	Adjective
66.	wax	Noun	Singular
67.	.	.

Eight parts of speech

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Noun

A noun names a person, place, things or idea. Examples dog, cat, horse, student, teacher, apple, Mary etc...

Adverb

An adverb tells how often, ho, when, where. It can describe a verb, an adjective or an adverb. Examples loudly, always, never, later, soon etc...

Verb

A verb is a word or group of words that desribes an action, experience. Examples realize, walk, see, look, sing, sit, listen etc...

Adjective

An adjective describes a noun or pronoun. Examples red, tall, fat, long, short, blue, beautiful, sour etc...

Preposition

A preposition is used before a noun, pronoun, or gerund to show place, time, direction in a sentence. Examples at, in, to, for, from etc...

Conjuction

Conjuntions join words or groups of words in a sentence. Examples and, because, yet, therefore, moreover, since, or, so, until, but etc...

Pronoun

Pronouns replace the name of a person, place, thing or idea in a sentence. Examples he, she it, we, they, him, her, this, that etc...

Interjection

Interjections express strong emotion and is often followed by an exclamation point. Examples Bravo! Hooray! Yeah! Oops! Phew!

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