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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.

   "If one wants to use a treebank for linguistic investigation, […]."

Verb

1. 1
   To parse and annotate sentences according to a treebank.

Example

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"If one wants to use a treebank for linguistic investigation, […]."

Etymology

From tree + bank, coined by British linguist Geoffrey Leech in analogy with seed bank, blood bank, etc.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.