parsing a simple sentence using syntaxnet (on Ubuntu)
Have a look at the documentation from the Authors of SyntaxNet themselves (Google). That link shows all the main steps that you might want to do.

Looking at the general setup required, it seems like quite an involved process! I can't actually find any nice walkthroughs on how to really run and understand the models... only that first link above!



If you would like to simply parse sentences and are not tied to SyntaxNet, it might be worth looking into similar and (in my opinion) easier to use tools, such as spaCy. You can install it easily using one of the commands from their website: