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Identify Clauses
Mon, 03/16/2015 - 04:52 — antardhvani
1. The lawyer advised the man bitten by the dog in the park not to sue the city.
The most important step is to obtain a high-quality parse-tree from a Deep Parser. Such a parse-tree should identify the clauses in the sentence as well as the Subject, Verb, and Arguments of each clause. For sentence #1, we should get the following clauses (and other details) from the parse-tree.
| # | Clause | Subject | Object | Verb | Adjunct |
| 1 | The man was bitten by the dog in the park. | the man | was bitten (Passive) | by the dog in the park | |
| 2 | The man not to sue the city. | the man | the city | not to sue (Active Infinitive) | |
| 3 | The lawyer advised the man not to sue the city. | the lawyer | the man | advised (Active) | the man not to sue the city |