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Syntactic analyzation of "According to an anecdote, a Hungarian ornithologist was invited to give a lecture on his field in East Germany, and a Hungarian student who studied there was asked to interpret. The lecture started, the first picture was shown, with the following words: "This is a hoopoe with perching legs and a double-feathered crest that can be made erect or decumbent.” The explanation was followed by an awkward silence and after long, painful minutes, the interpreter started to speak: “Vogel!” (bird)." This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	According	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
2.	to	to.
3.	an	Determiner
4.	anecdote	Noun	Singular
5.	,
6.	a	Determiner
7.	Hungarian	Adjective
8.	ornithologist	Noun	Singular
9.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
10.	invited	Verb	Past Participle.
11.	to	to.
12.	give	Verb	Base Form.
13.	a	Determiner
14.	lecture	Noun	Singular
15.	on	Preposition
16.	his	Possessive Pronoun.
17.	field	Noun	Singular
18.	in	Preposition
19.	East	Proper Noun	Singular
20.	Germany	Proper Noun	Singular
21.	,
22.	and	Conjunction
23.	a	Determiner
24.	Hungarian	Adjective
25.	student	Noun	Singular
26.	who	wh-pronoun.
27.	studied	Verb	Past Tense.
28.	there	Existential There.
29.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
30.	asked	Verb	Past Participle.
31.	to	to.
32.	interpret	Verb	Base Form.
33.	.	.
34.	The	Determiner
35.	lecture	Noun	Singular
36.	started	Verb	Past Tense.
37.	,
38.	the	Determiner
39.	first	Adjective
40.	picture	Noun	Singular
41.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
42.	shown	Verb	Past Participle.
43.	,
44.	with	Preposition
45.	the	Determiner
46.	following	Adjective
47.	words	Noun	Plural
48.	:	:
49.	``
50.	This	Determiner
51.	is	Verb	3rd person sing.
52.	a	Determiner
53.	hoopoe	Noun	Singular
54.	with	Preposition
55.	perching	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
56.	legs	Noun	Plural
57.	and	Conjunction
58.	a	Determiner
59.	double-feathered	Adjective
60.	crest	Noun	Singular
61.	that	wh-determiner.
62.	can	Modal
63.	be	Verb	Base Form.
64.	made	Verb	Past Participle.
65.	erect	Adjective
66.	or	Conjunction
67.	decumbent.	Foreign Word
68.	”	Foreign Word
69.	The	Determiner
70.	explanation	Noun	Singular
71.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
72.	followed	Verb	Past Participle.
73.	by	Preposition
74.	an	Determiner
75.	awkward	Adjective
76.	silence	Noun	Singular
77.	and	Conjunction
78.	after	Preposition
79.	long	Adjective
80.	,
81.	painful	Adjective
82.	minutes	Noun	Plural
83.	,
84.	the	Determiner
85.	interpreter	Noun	Singular
86.	started	Verb	Past Tense.
87.	to	to.
88.	speak	Verb	Base Form.
89.	:	:
90.	“	Proper Noun	Singular
91.	Vogel	Proper Noun	Singular
92.	!	.
93.	”	Foreign Word
94.	(	Foreign Word
95.	bird	Noun	Singular
96.	)	Noun	Singular
97.	.	.

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