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Syntactic analyzation of ""'Tom lives only an hour away,' that's what Mary said at school today. What does that mean, Mum?" Mum thought for a moment. "Well," she began, as she usually began her answers, "a distance can be expressed as a unit of time when you've established a constant rate of speed – it might be the average speed of a pedestrian, a bicycle or a car. But without knowing the context, the most natural choice would be the speed of light in vacuum, according to which–" Mum did the mental arithmetic, Johnny meanwhile scribbling everything down on a notepad, "Tom lives about a billion kilometres away, possibly on an asteroid somewhere near Saturn."" This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	``
2.	'Tom	Noun	Singular
3.	lives	Verb	3rd person sing.
4.	only	Adverb.
5.	an	Determiner
6.	hour	Noun	Singular
7.	away	Adverb.
8.	,
9.	'
10.	that	Determiner
11.	's	Verb	3rd person sing.
12.	what	wh-pronoun.
13.	Mary	Proper Noun	Singular
14.	said	Verb	Past Tense.
15.	at	Preposition
16.	school	Noun	Singular
17.	today	Noun	Singular
18.	.	.
19.	What	wh-pronoun.
20.	does	Verb	3rd person sing.
21.	that	Determiner
22.	mean	Noun	Singular
23.	,
24.	Mum	Noun	Singular
25.	?	.
26.	''
27.	Mum	Proper Noun	Singular
28.	thought	Verb	Past Tense.
29.	for	Preposition
30.	a	Determiner
31.	moment	Noun	Singular
32.	.	.
33.	``
34.	Well	Proper Noun	Singular
35.	,
36.	''
37.	she	Personal Pronoun.
38.	began	Verb	Past Tense.
39.	,
40.	as	Preposition
41.	she	Personal Pronoun.
42.	usually	Adverb.
43.	began	Verb	Past Tense.
44.	her	Possessive Pronoun.
45.	answers	Noun	Plural
46.	,
47.	``
48.	a	Determiner
49.	distance	Noun	Singular
50.	can	Modal
51.	be	Verb	Base Form.
52.	expressed	Verb	Past Participle.
53.	as	Preposition
54.	a	Determiner
55.	unit	Noun	Singular
56.	of	Preposition
57.	time	Noun	Singular
58.	when	wh-abverb.
59.	you	Personal Pronoun.
60.	've	Verb	Sing Present
61.	established	Verb	Past Participle.
62.	a	Determiner
63.	constant	Adjective
64.	rate	Noun	Singular
65.	of	Preposition
66.	speed	Noun	Singular
67.	–	Noun	Singular
68.	it	Personal Pronoun.
69.	might	Modal
70.	be	Verb	Base Form.
71.	the	Determiner
72.	average	Adjective
73.	speed	Noun	Singular
74.	of	Preposition
75.	a	Determiner
76.	pedestrian	Noun	Singular
77.	,
78.	a	Determiner
79.	bicycle	Noun	Singular
80.	or	Conjunction
81.	a	Determiner
82.	car	Noun	Singular
83.	.	.
84.	But	Conjunction
85.	without	Preposition
86.	knowing	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
87.	the	Determiner
88.	context	Noun	Singular
89.	,
90.	the	Determiner
91.	most	Adverb	Superlative.
92.	natural	Adjective
93.	choice	Noun	Singular
94.	would	Modal
95.	be	Verb	Base Form.
96.	the	Determiner
97.	speed	Noun	Singular
98.	of	Preposition
99.	light	Noun	Singular
100.	in	Preposition
101.	vacuum	Noun	Singular
102.	,
103.	according	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
104.	to	to.
105.	which–	Noun	Singular
106.	''
107.	Mum	Noun	Singular
108.	did	Verb	Past Tense.
109.	the	Determiner
110.	mental	Adjective
111.	arithmetic	Noun	Singular
112.	,
113.	Johnny	Proper Noun	Singular
114.	meanwhile	Adverb.
115.	scribbling	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
116.	everything	Noun	Singular
117.	down	Particle.
118.	on	Preposition
119.	a	Determiner
120.	notepad	Noun	Singular
121.	,
122.	``
123.	Tom	Proper Noun	Singular
124.	lives	Verb	3rd person sing.
125.	about	Preposition
126.	a	Determiner
127.	billion	Cardinal Digit
128.	kilometres	Noun	Plural
129.	away	Adverb.
130.	,
131.	possibly	Adverb.
132.	on	Preposition
133.	an	Determiner
134.	asteroid	Noun	Singular
135.	somewhere	Adverb.
136.	near	Preposition
137.	Saturn	Proper Noun	Singular
138.	.	.
139.	''

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