Analysis of syntactic complexity
Syntactic complexity is a general term used to describe a variety of quantitative measurements regarding the grammatical structure of a sentence. Measures of syntactic complexity can identify how difficult any given sentence is to comprehend, as well as how hard a sentence is to produce; in both of these cases, higher complexity indicates greater difficulty. Complexity Analyzer computes the following 14 syntactic complexity indices and pattern density indices related to syntactical understanding of the text.
14 syntactic complexity indices and others
Type 1
Length of production Unit
Mean length of sentence
Mean length of clause
Mean length of T-Unit
# of words / # of clauses
# of words / # of sentences
# of words / # of T-units
Type 2
Particular structures
Complex nominals per clause
Complex nominals per T-unit
Verb phrases per T-unit
# of complex nominals / # of clauses
# of complex nominals / # of T-units
# of verb phrases / # of T-units
Type 3
Subordination
T-unit complexity ratio
Complex T-unit ratio
Dependent clause ratio
Dependent clauses per T-unit
# of clauses / # of T-units
# of complex T-units / # of T-units
# of dependent clauses / # of clauses
# of dependent clauses / # of T-units
Type 4
Coordination
Coordinate phrases per clause
Coordinate phrases per T-unit
Sentence coordination ratio
# of coordinate phrases / # of clause
# of coordinate phrases / # of T-units
# of T-units / # of sentences
Type 5
Sentence Complexity
Sentence complexity ratio
# of clauses / # of sentences
others
SYNLE
SYNNP
the average number of modifiers per noun phrase
Syntactic Pattern Density and other indices
DRNP
density of noun phrase
명사구 밀도
DRVP
density of verb phrase
동사구 밀도
DRAP
density of adverbial phrase
부사구 밀도
DRPP
density of prepositional phrase
전치사구 밀도
DRPVAL
density of agentless passive voice
수동태 밀도
DRNEG
density of negation
부정어 밀도
DRGERUND
density of gerund
동명사 밀도
DRINF
density of infinitive
부정사구 밀도