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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Parsing

All the running around Liverpool do has to come back to haunt them at some point. (BBC Sport website.)

All the running around Liverpool do - a subject;
has to come back to haunt - a predicator;
them - a direct object;
at some point - an adverbial.

Is my parsing acceptable?
  

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Anonymous Liverpool do has That part does not make structural (or semantic) sense to me, but the rest is OK as you have parsed it.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous Liverpool do has That part does not make structural (or semantic) sense to me, but the rest is OK as you have parsed it.
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AnonymousLiverpool do has
That part does not make structural (or semantic) sense to me, but the rest is OK as you have parsed it.
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Mister Micawber AnonymousLiverpool do hasThat part does not make structural (or semantic) sense to me, but the rest is OK as you have parsed it.
Thank you for the reply.

I understand All the running around Liverpool do as a noun phrase in which relative clause adjectivally modifies the head of that phrase, i.e., All the running around. I
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AnonymousI understand All the running around Liverpool do as a noun phrase in which relative clause adjectivally modifies the head of that phrase, i.e., All the running around. In other words, All the running around (that/which) Liverpool [as a team] do.
Ah, yes—now I see it. Thank you.
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