Flashcards in Syntax 322: Ch 4, Structural Relations Deck (19)
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BRANCH:
A line connecting two parts of a tree.
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NODE:
The end of a branch.
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LABEL:
The name given to a node. For example: TP, NP, N, VP, V...
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PROPER DOMINATION:
Node A dominates node B if and only if node A is higher up in the tree that node B, and if you can trace a branch from A going to B only downwards.
So TP will dominate everything in the tree.
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IMMEDIATE DOMINATION:
Node A immediately dominates node B if there is no intervening node G that is dominated by A but dominates B.
In other words, A is the first node that dominates B.
A immediately dominates nodes at the end of its branches.
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MOTHER:
A is the mother of B if A immediately dominates B.
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DAUGHTER:
B is the daughter of A if B is immediately dominated by A.
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SISTERS:
Two nodes that share the same mother.
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ROOT NODE:
The node that dominates everything but is dominated by nothing. Or the node that is a daughter of no other node.
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NON-TERMINAL NODE:
A node that dominates something. Or a node that is a mother.
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TERMINAL NODE:
A node that dominates nothing. A node that is not a mother.
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EXHAUSTIVE DOMINATION:
Node A exhaustively dominates a set of terminal nodes {B, C, D ...} provided it dominates all the members of the stet (so that there is no member of that set that is not dominated by A) and there is no terminal node G dominated by A that is not a member of that set.
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CONSTITUENT:
A set of terminal nodes exhaustively dominated by a particular node.
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CONSTITUENT OF:
The opposite of domination. A is a constituent of B if and only if B dominates A.
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IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENT OF:
A is an immediate constituent of B if and only if B immediately dominates A.
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SISTER-PRECEDENCE:
Precedence encodes linear order of constituents.
Node A sister-precedes node B if and only if both are immediately dominated by the same node and A appears to the left of B.
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PRECEDENCE:
Node A precedes node B if and only if neither A dominates B nor B dominates A and A (or some node dominating A) sister-precedes B (or some node dominating B).
Node A precedes node B if and only if neither dominates the other and A (or some node dominating A) sister-precedes B (or some node dominating B).
In: "the clown kissed the doberman"...
- clown precedes kissed
- clown precedes doberman
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NO CROSSING BOUNDARIES CONTRAINT:
If node X precedes another node Y then X and all nodes dominated by X must precede Y and all nodes dominated by Y.
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