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Syntactic analyzation of "One night in 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe saw what he thought was a brilliant new star in the constellation Cassiopeia. (We now know he was observing a supernova.) In 1604, a second supernova was observed. These discoveries caused scientists to seriously question Ptolemy's theory that all stars were contained in an outermost sphere of the universe that never changed." This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	One	Cardinal Digit
2.	night	Noun	Singular
3.	in	Preposition
4.	1572	Cardinal Digit
5.	,
6.	Danish	Adjective
7.	astronomer	Noun	Singular
8.	Tycho	Proper Noun	Singular
9.	Brahe	Proper Noun	Singular
10.	saw	Verb	Past Tense.
11.	what	wh-pronoun.
12.	he	Personal Pronoun.
13.	thought	Verb	Past Tense.
14.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
15.	a	Determiner
16.	brilliant	Adjective
17.	new	Adjective
18.	star	Noun	Singular
19.	in	Preposition
20.	the	Determiner
21.	constellation	Noun	Singular
22.	Cassiopeia	Proper Noun	Singular
23.	.	.
24.	(	Verb	Base Form.
25.	We	Personal Pronoun.
26.	now	Adverb.
27.	know	Verb	Sing Present
28.	he	Personal Pronoun.
29.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
30.	observing	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
31.	a	Determiner
32.	supernova	Noun	Singular
33.	.	.
34.	)	Foreign Word
35.	In	Foreign Word
36.	1604	Cardinal Digit
37.	,
38.	a	Determiner
39.	second	Adjective
40.	supernova	Noun	Singular
41.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
42.	observed	Verb	Past Participle.
43.	.	.
44.	These	Determiner
45.	discoveries	Noun	Plural
46.	caused	Verb	Past Tense.
47.	scientists	Noun	Plural
48.	to	to.
49.	seriously	Adverb.
50.	question	Verb	Base Form.
51.	Ptolemy	Proper Noun	Singular
52.	's	Possessive Ending.
53.	theory	Noun	Singular
54.	that	Preposition
55.	all	Determiner
56.	stars	Noun	Plural
57.	were	Verb	Past Tense.
58.	contained	Verb	Past Participle.
59.	in	Preposition
60.	an	Determiner
61.	outermost	Adjective
62.	sphere	Noun	Singular
63.	of	Preposition
64.	the	Determiner
65.	universe	Noun	Singular
66.	that	wh-determiner.
67.	never	Adverb.
68.	changed	Verb	Past Tense.
69.	.	.

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Noun

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

Adverb

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Verb

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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

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