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Syntactic analyzation of "Ancient cultures had a variety of explanations for what the stars and planets were, but nearly all of them believed in the possibility of life forms much different from those they saw on Earth." This text has been automatically tagged.
| # | Word | Part of speech | Syntactic relation |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ancient | Adjective | ||
| 2. | cultures | Noun | Plural | |
| 3. | had | Verb | Past Tense. | |
| 4. | a | Determiner | ||
| 5. | variety | Noun | Singular | |
| 6. | of | Preposition | ||
| 7. | explanations | Noun | Plural | |
| 8. | for | Preposition | ||
| 9. | what | wh-pronoun. | ||
| 10. | the | Determiner | ||
| 11. | stars | Noun | Plural | |
| 12. | and | Conjunction | ||
| 13. | planets | Noun | Plural | |
| 14. | were | Verb | Past Tense. | |
| 15. | , | |||
| 16. | but | Conjunction | ||
| 17. | nearly | Adverb. | ||
| 18. | all | Determiner | ||
| 19. | of | Preposition | ||
| 20. | them | Personal Pronoun. | ||
| 21. | believed | Verb | Past Tense. | |
| 22. | in | Preposition | ||
| 23. | the | Determiner | ||
| 24. | possibility | Noun | Singular | |
| 25. | of | Preposition | ||
| 26. | life | Noun | Singular | |
| 27. | forms | Noun | Plural | |
| 28. | much | Adverb. | ||
| 29. | different | Adjective | ||
| 30. | from | Preposition | ||
| 31. | those | Determiner | ||
| 32. | they | Personal Pronoun. | ||
| 33. | saw | Verb | Past Tense. | |
| 34. | on | Preposition | ||
| 35. | Earth | Proper Noun | Singular | |
| 36. | . | . | ||
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Conjuction
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Pronoun
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Interjection
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