Sentence analysis

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Nan27  #535069  Tue, 01 Jul 08 11:51 AM
Could someone please help with the sentence analysis (syntactic functions):

Nora went mad because France lost a match against Spain in the championship for the best team in Italy last week.


Subject - Nora
Verb - went
Complement - mad

What about the rest of the sentence? Is it all adverbial of reason, or should be analyzed further???

Thank you very much in advance!!
  
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Doll  #535241  Tue, 01 Jul 08 05:14 PM

Very generally it seems that it is a sentence + conjunction + sentence structure.   

Nora went mad (first sentence) + becasue (conjunction) + France lost... (second sentence)  

As for the analysis, (I haven't dome sentence analysis for months so I may have forgetten somethings. Wink  

last week: noun phrase                                                                                   a match: noun phrase     

in Italy prepositional phrase                                                                             lost: verb phrase (this verb phrase includes all the phrases I counted before

best team: adjective phrase                                                                            and forms a sentence.  

the best team: noun phrase                                                                            because:conjunction   

for : prepositional phrase                                                                                mad: adjective phrase

the championship: noun phrase                                                                       Nora: noun phrase   

in: prepositional phrase                                                                                   went:verb phrase (this includes Nora and mad that is noun phrase and

Spain: noun phrase                                                                                         adjective phrase)

against: prepositional phrase (follow from the right)    

I hope I didn't make a mistake above.   

As for modifiers and complements:     

I forgot my previous knowledge and I can't make sure whether we should take "go mad" as together or not so I skip it and Iw ill try to help as far as I remember.    

"Italy" is the complement of "in"  

"Spain" is the complement of "against" 

"the best team" is the complement of "for".    

"the championship" is the ceomplement of "in"  

" a match" is the complement of "lost"    

 

 

  
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Clive  #535474  Tue, 01 Jul 08 11:41 PM
Hi guys,
Nora went mad because France lost a match against Spain in the championship for the best team in Italy last week.
When I read this sentence, the first question that comes to my mind is 'Why are France and Spain competing to be the best team in Italy?' It sounds like a competition for Italian teams only.

The punctuation and/or sentence structure needs to be altered.
Best wishes, Clive
  
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Doll  #535921  Wed, 02 Jul 08 05:16 PM

Yes,  it is strange semantically. Smile

  
Abil  #535929  Wed, 02 Jul 08 05:36 PM
That has striked me too.
  
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Tanit  #536028  Wed, 02 Jul 08 10:13 PM
That has striked me too.


You probably meant 'struck', right?
  
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Anonymous  #567180  Wed, 17 Sep 08 02:56 PM
TIt should be analyzed further
  
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