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Syntactic analyzation of "Thus our own Christmas fir was decked as a symbol of the celestial sun tree. The lights, according to Professor Schwartz, represent the flashes of lightning overhead, the golden apples, nuts and balls symbolize the sun, the moon and the stars, while the little animals hung in the branches betoken sacrifices made in gratitude to the sun god." This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	Thus	Adverb.
2.	our	Possessive Pronoun.
3.	own	Adjective
4.	Christmas	Proper Noun	Singular
5.	fir	Noun	Singular
6.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
7.	decked	Verb	Past Participle.
8.	as	Preposition
9.	a	Determiner
10.	symbol	Noun	Singular
11.	of	Preposition
12.	the	Determiner
13.	celestial	Adjective
14.	sun	Noun	Singular
15.	tree	Noun	Singular
16.	.	.
17.	The	Determiner
18.	lights	Noun	Plural
19.	,
20.	according	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
21.	to	to.
22.	Professor	Proper Noun	Singular
23.	Schwartz	Proper Noun	Singular
24.	,
25.	represent	Verb	Sing Present
26.	the	Determiner
27.	flashes	Noun	Plural
28.	of	Preposition
29.	lightning	Noun	Singular
30.	overhead	Noun	Singular
31.	,
32.	the	Determiner
33.	golden	Adjective
34.	apples	Noun	Plural
35.	,
36.	nuts	Noun	Plural
37.	and	Conjunction
38.	balls	Noun	Plural
39.	symbolize	Verb	Sing Present
40.	the	Determiner
41.	sun	Noun	Singular
42.	,
43.	the	Determiner
44.	moon	Noun	Singular
45.	and	Conjunction
46.	the	Determiner
47.	stars	Noun	Plural
48.	,
49.	while	Preposition
50.	the	Determiner
51.	little	Adjective
52.	animals	Noun	Plural
53.	hung	Verb	Past Participle.
54.	in	Preposition
55.	the	Determiner
56.	branches	Noun	Plural
57.	betoken	Verb	Sing Present
58.	sacrifices	Noun	Plural
59.	made	Verb	Past Participle.
60.	in	Preposition
61.	gratitude	Noun	Singular
62.	to	to.
63.	the	Determiner
64.	sun	Noun	Singular
65.	god	Noun	Singular
66.	.	.

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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