Basic annotated syntactic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate_constituent" class="extiw" title="en:Immediate constituent">constituent structure</a> tree for a simple English sentence.  Note that the formal terminology of linguistic theories (i.e. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-bar_theory" class="extiw" title="en:X-bar theory">X-bar theory</a> etc.) is not used.
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