LIN232H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Terminal And Nonterminal Symbols, Ditransitive Verb, Preposition And Postposition
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Branch: a line connecting two parts of a tree. Root node: the node that dominates everything and is dominated by nothing. Any node that dominates something is called a non-terminal node. A node that sits atop another and is connected by a branch is said to dominate that node. Constituent: a set of terminal nodes exhaustively dominated by a particular node. Constituent of: b is a constituent of a if a dominates b. Mother: a is the mother of b if a immediately dominates b. Daughter: b is the daughter of a if b is immediately dominated by a. Sisters: two nodes that share the same mother. Sister precedence: node a sister-precedes node b if both are immediately dominated by the same node, and a appears to the left of b. Precedence: node a precedes node b if neither a dominates b nor b dominates a and a sister- precedes b (or some node dominating b)
