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Syntactic analyzation of "These stories are as old as anything that men have invented. They were narrated by naked savage women to naked savage children. They have been inherited by our earliest civilised ancestors, who really believed that beasts and trees and stones can talk if they choose, and behave kindly or unkindly. The stories are full of the oldest ideas of ages when science did not exist, and magic took the place of science." This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	These	Determiner
2.	stories	Noun	Plural
3.	are	Verb	Sing Present
4.	as	Adverb.
5.	old	Adjective
6.	as	Preposition
7.	anything	Noun	Singular
8.	that	Preposition
9.	men	Noun	Plural
10.	have	Verb	Sing Present
11.	invented	Verb	Past Participle.
12.	.	.
13.	They	Personal Pronoun.
14.	were	Verb	Past Tense.
15.	narrated	Verb	Past Participle.
16.	by	Preposition
17.	naked	Adjective
18.	savage	Adjective
19.	women	Noun	Plural
20.	to	to.
21.	naked	Adjective
22.	savage	Adjective
23.	children	Noun	Plural
24.	.	.
25.	They	Personal Pronoun.
26.	have	Verb	Sing Present
27.	been	Verb	Past Participle.
28.	inherited	Verb	Past Participle.
29.	by	Preposition
30.	our	Possessive Pronoun.
31.	earliest	Adjective	Superlative
32.	civilised	Adjective
33.	ancestors	Noun	Plural
34.	,
35.	who	wh-pronoun.
36.	really	Adverb.
37.	believed	Verb	Past Tense.
38.	that	Preposition
39.	beasts	Noun	Plural
40.	and	Conjunction
41.	trees	Noun	Plural
42.	and	Conjunction
43.	stones	Noun	Plural
44.	can	Modal
45.	talk	Verb	Base Form.
46.	if	Preposition
47.	they	Personal Pronoun.
48.	choose	Verb	Sing Present
49.	,
50.	and	Conjunction
51.	behave	Verb	Base Form.
52.	kindly	Adverb.
53.	or	Conjunction
54.	unkindly	Adverb.
55.	.	.
56.	The	Determiner
57.	stories	Noun	Plural
58.	are	Verb	Sing Present
59.	full	Adjective
60.	of	Preposition
61.	the	Determiner
62.	oldest	Adjective	Superlative
63.	ideas	Noun	Plural
64.	of	Preposition
65.	ages	Noun	Plural
66.	when	wh-abverb.
67.	science	Noun	Singular
68.	did	Verb	Past Tense.
69.	not	Adverb.
70.	exist	Verb	Base Form.
71.	,
72.	and	Conjunction
73.	magic	Noun	Singular
74.	took	Verb	Past Tense.
75.	the	Determiner
76.	place	Noun	Singular
77.	of	Preposition
78.	science	Noun	Singular
79.	.	.

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