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SENTENCE-TREE

AIMA3e

[ [S [NP-SBJ-2 Her eyes]
  [VP were
    [VP glazed
      [NP *-2]
      [SBAR-ADV as if
        [S [NP-SBJ she]
          [VP did n’t
           [VP [VP hear [NP *-1]]
             or
             [VP [ADVP even] see [NP *-1]]
             [NP-1 him]]]]]]]]
.]


Figure ?? Annotated tree for the sentence “Her eyes were glazed as if she didn’t hear or even see him.” from the Penn Treebank. Note that in this grammar there is a distinction between an object noun phrase (NP) and a subject noun phrase (NP-SBJ). Note also a grammatical phenomenon we have not covered yet: the movement of a phrase from one part of the tree to another. This tree analyzes the phrase “hear or even see him” as consisting of two constituent VP s, [VP hear [NP *-1]] and [VP [ADVP even] see [NP *-1]], both of which have a missing object, denoted *-1, which refers to the NP labeled elsewhere in the tree as [NP-1 him].