Using English as an example, the idea is that some English sentences can be represented by the following parsing trees:
SENTENCE SENTENCE
/ \ / \
PROPER NOUN VERB COMMON NOUN VERB
/ / \
NAME ARTICLE NOUN
English phrase "dog barks". can then be analyzed as follows:
ARTICLE NOUN VERB
/ / /
The dog barks
COMMON NOUN
/ \
ARTICLE NOUN VERB
/ / /
The dog barks
SENTENCE
/ \
COMMON NOUN \
/ \ \
ARTICLE NOUN VERB
/ / /
The dog barks
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SENTENCE
/ \
COMMON NOUN \
/ \ \
ARTICLE NOUN VERB
/ / /
A leaf falls
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