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• To step
• Part 1 of 2: Learning the definition of sentence parsing
• Part 2 of 2: Learning the concepts of rational analysis
• Tips
• Warnings
• Necessities

Reasonable parsing is one of those tricky parts of Dutch grammar that many people are confronted with at an early age in their school career. However, for a deeper understanding of the language, it is very important to be able to do this with some ease. To do this, you must first understand what reasoning parsing actually entails and which concepts are important in rational parsing. Below you can read for each concept one or more examples of sentences in which you can apply this knowledge. If you want to learn how to rationalize sentences, read on.

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Part 1 of 2: Learning the definition of sentence parsing

1. Understand the definition of reasoned parse. Reasonable parsing is the division of sentences into phrases. This form of parsing is also called "sentence parsing" because it focuses attention on the function of the phrases, or groups of words that form a short sentence within a longer sentence and have meaning.
2. Understand phrases. You can split sentences into phrases. These are words or phrases that belong together and have a certain function in the sentence, and thus contribute to the meaning of that sentence. We call this rational parsing, not to be confused with linguistic parsing, or naming the word types of a sentence.
   • To learn more about linguistic parse, find more information on this topic on wikiHow.
3. Learn to analyze rationally. You will have to use a few grammatical concepts for the mathematical parsing, the subdivision of a sentence into a number of phrases. Central to this are the person form and the saying, the subject, direct object and indirect object.
   • This knowledge is not only important for Dutch, but certainly also for learning other languages.

Part 2 of 2: Learning the concepts of rational analysis

1. Learn the different terms of reasoned analysis. In mathematical parsing we have to deal with a large number of grammatical terms, which must be memorized as well as possible in order to work with them quickly. It concerns the following logical terms.
2. Find the person form. This phrase is always a verb. A tried and true way to find it is by changing the time in which the sentence stands. The verb, and with it the person form, will then change with it. Another way is to make the sentence questioning. The person form will then be placed at the front of the sentence. The person form is often part of the saying.
   • Example: "Pete can lift the big tree trunk". The past tense is "Piet could lift the big tree trunk". If we make the sentence questioning, it becomes "Can Pete lift the big tree trunk?" So the subject is "can".
3. Find the verbal saying. This phrase indicates what kinds of things are happening in the sentence. This is the same as the person form, if there are no other verb forms in the sentence. If there are more verb forms in the sentence, they also belong to the verbal saying.
   • Example: "Pete can lift the big tree trunk". The person form is "can" and the verbal saying is "can lift".
4. Find the nominal saying. The name says it all: in a noun phrase there is a noun (a noun, adjective or personal pronoun). The tricky part of this concept is what exactly the nominal part of the saying is. The verbal part is simple enough, it is just the main verb and must be a linking verb (to be, to become, to remain, to appear, to appear, to appear, to be called, to dunk, to appear). The nominal part of the saying then describes a property of the subject of the sentence. The nominal part is then, together with the copula, the nominal saying.
   • Example: "The man is very strange". The word "is" serves as a copula (of "being") and is therefore the verbal part, the words "very strange" is the nominal phrase. Together they form the nominal saying: "is very strange".
5. Find the topic. The subject is a phrase that indicates who or what is doing something, or in what situation that or that is. We can find the subject by using the verbal saying (by making it a question), or by changing the singular or plural form of the person form.
   • Example 1: "That morning the man walked along the Seine". Who was running? The man. So "the man" is the topic here.
   • Example 2: "That morning the man walked along the Seine". We change "ran" into "run"? The sentence then becomes: That morning the men walk along the Seine. Here, "the man" must also be put in the plural to make the sentence correct, and so "the man" is the subject of the sentence.
6. Find the direct object. The direct object is the phrase that indicates who or what undergoes the action in the sentence. You can find this by asking a question, just like with the topic. Only this time you do not ask who / what with only the verbal saying behind it, but also with the subject as a question.
   • Example: "Every day the dog bites the postman". The verbal saying here is "bite" and the subject is "the dog". So now you ask: what / who is biting the dog? The mailman. Thus "the postman" is the object of this sentence.
7. Find the indirect object. The cooperating object indicates who or what is involved in an action. To recognize the indirect object, we ask another question, this time with "on" or "before". This is a quick test, which does not always work. To be sure, form the question as follows: to (or for) who (or what) + saying + subject + direct object.
   • Example: Pieter gave the ball to his teammate. You can find the indirect object by asking the question: To whom (saying) Pieter (subject) gave the ball (direct object)? To "his partner" So "his partner" is the indirect object here.
8. Practice until you can. With the foregoing concepts and examples, you have all the knowledge and tools in-house to become increasingly better at sentence parsing. This is a skill you need to practice, so just going through this article will not suffice - you will have to get started with problems or choose your own sentences to rationally parse. Then it will certainly work!

Tips

• Remember, when reasoning, you name phrases and the function of words within those parts of a sentence. The linguistic parsing says something about the words themselves, even without putting them in a sentence.

Warnings

• It's easy to get confused. Read the terms carefully and practice regularly to avoid mistakes (such as thinking that a verb is a term associated with arithmetic rather than linguistic parse).

Necessities

• Pen
• Paper