What is syntactic analysis?

Syntactic analysis is defined as analysis that tells us the logical meaning of certain given sentences or parts of those sentences. We also need to consider rules of grammar in order to define the logical meaning as well as correctness of the sentences.

Let's take an example: If I'm considering English and I have a sentence such as School go a boy, this sentence does not logically convey its meaning, and its grammatical structure is not correct. So, syntactic analysis tells us whether the given sentence conveys its logical meaning and whether its grammatical structure is correct.

Syntactic analysis is a well-developed area of NLP that deals with the syntax of NL. In syntactic analysis, grammar rules have been used ...

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