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A syntactic dependency is a relation between two words in a sentence with one word being the governor and the other being the dependent of the relation. Syntactic dependencies often form a tree.

WebAnno supports the annotation of syntactic dependencies as relations between part-of-speech annotations.

The CoNLL 2006 shared task was tackling the parsing of syntactic dependencies. The file format used by the corpora of this shared task cover part-of-speech, lemma, morphological features, and of course syntactic dependency annotations. Many other corpora are available in this format as well.

WebAnno directly supports importing and exporting annotations in the CoNLL 2006 format.

The screenshot shows an example from the Turin University Treebank.