4.1 Kazakh Verb phrase structure A Verb phrase has a verb as the center and is made up of more than one verb. A verb phrase
contains a main verb and one or more helping verbs. The helping verbs help the main verb to show
the action. The verb in a sentence expresses the tense or time type, person and number of
grammatical categories. Using the same verb phrase often acts as a predicate in a sentence, the
subject, the attribute and so on. The Kazakh noun phrases divided by the function of phrases in our
system are shown below.
1) n+v; 2) v+v; 3) adv+v; 4) n+vc; 5) n+n+v; 6) n+va; 7) vc+v ; 8) pron+v;
9) pron+va; 10) va+v ;11)n+vd; 12)adv+vd; 13)n+v+v; 14)vb+v; 15)adj+va;
16) num+" +"v; 17) adj+va; 18)v+v+v
For the purpose of testing,1000 sentences are used for analysis in "Xinjiang Daily" (Kazakh
version corpus) , which are as follows:1000 sentences ; 8871 words in the text; 416 verb phrases ;
The average sentence length is 9 words(see attached 1).
