Notational Variants Economic news had little effect on financial markets

◮ The basic idea: ◮ Syntactic structure consists of lexical items, linked by binary asymmetric relations called dependencies. ◮ In the (translated) words of Lucien Tesnière [Tesnière(1959)]: ◮ The sentence is an organized whole, the constituent elements of which are words. [1.2] Every word that belongs to a sentence ceases by itself to be isolated as in the dictionary. Between the word and its neighbors, the mind perceives connections, the totality of which forms the structure of the sentence. [1.3] The structural connections establish dependency relations between the words. Each connection in principle unites a superior term and an inferior term. [2.1] The superior term receives the name governor. The inferior term receives the name subordinate. Thus, in the sentence Alfred parle [. . . ], parle is the governor and Alfred the subordinate. [2.2]