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phrase structure tree

noun

Linguistics. a structural representation of a sentence in the form of an inverted tree, with each node of the tree labeled according to the phrasal constituent it represents.

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Nearby words

phrasally, phrase, phrase book, phrase marker, phrase structure, phrase structure tree, phrase-structure grammar, phrase-structure rule, phrasemaker, phrasemonger, phraseogram

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