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Syntactic analyzation of "Each had a separate employ — in sharpening the pruning hooks, in suspending the mill-stone for pounding the grapes, after they had been trodden underfoot, or in preparing dry osiers, stripped of their bark, which were to serve as torches, so that the must might be drawn off during the night." This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	Each	Determiner
2.	had	Verb	Past Tense.
3.	a	Determiner
4.	separate	Adjective
5.	employ	Verb	Sing Present
6.	—	Noun	Singular
7.	in	Preposition
8.	sharpening	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
9.	the	Determiner
10.	pruning	Noun	Singular
11.	hooks	Noun	Plural
12.	,
13.	in	Preposition
14.	suspending	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
15.	the	Determiner
16.	mill-stone	Noun	Singular
17.	for	Preposition
18.	pounding	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
19.	the	Determiner
20.	grapes	Noun	Plural
21.	,
22.	after	Preposition
23.	they	Personal Pronoun.
24.	had	Verb	Past Tense.
25.	been	Verb	Past Participle.
26.	trodden	Adjective
27.	underfoot	Noun	Singular
28.	,
29.	or	Conjunction
30.	in	Preposition
31.	preparing	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
32.	dry	Adjective
33.	osiers	Noun	Plural
34.	,
35.	stripped	Verb	Past Participle.
36.	of	Preposition
37.	their	Possessive Pronoun.
38.	bark	Noun	Singular
39.	,
40.	which	wh-determiner.
41.	were	Verb	Past Tense.
42.	to	to.
43.	serve	Verb	Base Form.
44.	as	Preposition
45.	torches	Noun	Plural
46.	,
47.	so	Preposition
48.	that	Preposition
49.	the	Determiner
50.	must	Modal
51.	might	Modal
52.	be	Verb	Base Form.
53.	drawn	Verb	Past Participle.
54.	off	Particle.
55.	during	Preposition
56.	the	Determiner
57.	night	Noun	Singular
58.	.	.

Eight parts of speech

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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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