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Syntactic analyzation of "When the pirates saw the handsome youth, who, they knew, would be a prize of greater value than all the plunder they could find in the fields, they ceased to pursue the goats or to search for other spoil, and dragged him to their vessel, while he wept in despair, and called loudly on his Chloe." This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	When	wh-abverb.
2.	the	Determiner
3.	pirates	Noun	Plural
4.	saw	Verb	Past Tense.
5.	the	Determiner
6.	handsome	Adjective
7.	youth	Noun	Singular
8.	,
9.	who	wh-pronoun.
10.	,
11.	they	Personal Pronoun.
12.	knew	Verb	Past Tense.
13.	,
14.	would	Modal
15.	be	Verb	Base Form.
16.	a	Determiner
17.	prize	Noun	Singular
18.	of	Preposition
19.	greater	Adjective	Comparative
20.	value	Noun	Singular
21.	than	Preposition
22.	all	Predeterminer
23.	the	Determiner
24.	plunder	Noun	Singular
25.	they	Personal Pronoun.
26.	could	Modal
27.	find	Verb	Base Form.
28.	in	Preposition
29.	the	Determiner
30.	fields	Noun	Plural
31.	,
32.	they	Personal Pronoun.
33.	ceased	Verb	Past Tense.
34.	to	to.
35.	pursue	Verb	Base Form.
36.	the	Determiner
37.	goats	Noun	Plural
38.	or	Conjunction
39.	to	to.
40.	search	Verb	Base Form.
41.	for	Preposition
42.	other	Adjective
43.	spoil	Noun	Singular
44.	,
45.	and	Conjunction
46.	dragged	Verb	Past Tense.
47.	him	Personal Pronoun.
48.	to	to.
49.	their	Possessive Pronoun.
50.	vessel	Noun	Singular
51.	,
52.	while	Preposition
53.	he	Personal Pronoun.
54.	wept	Verb	Past Tense.
55.	in	Preposition
56.	despair	Noun	Singular
57.	,
58.	and	Conjunction
59.	called	Verb	Past Tense.
60.	loudly	Adverb.
61.	on	Preposition
62.	his	Possessive Pronoun.
63.	Chloe	Proper Noun	Singular
64.	.	.

Eight parts of speech

Below you can see a brief explanation of the eight main parts of speech. Memorize each word type to get a better understanding of the composition of a sentence.

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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