Ukrainian Texts Research Articles

Від драбини та нитки до неба: символічне осмислення шляху у фрагменті мовної картини світу

This article «From Ladder and Thread to Heaven: The Symbolic Meaning of the Path in a Fragment of the Linguistic World Image» explores the problem of the analysis of folk customs. These customs could be verbalized both in folk texts and in dialects. The specifics of this study lie in the linguistic analysis of the symbols which are usually interpreted as folk customs and folk objects. However, the symbolism of the objects in national customs causes the development of a symbolic meaning of the respective word that defines these objects. In this way, many symbols in folk customs become verbal, and the context of the custom creates a foundation for the development of the symbolic meaning. The verbal symbols analyzed are a «thread», a «ball of twine», a «ladder», a «bridge» and a «cross». In the national Ukrainian linguistic space, these words have the general semantics of the ‘connection between worlds’. It is stressed that the symbolic meaning of the (celestial) ladder has been discovered in the biblical context. This is also relevant for the clarification of the subject of continuity in the development of the symbolic meanings, which are also documented in the Ukrainian context. A concrete situation in linguistics and custom creates conditions under which arise symbolic co-meanings that develop in the framework of the same main symbolic archetypical meaning. All analyzed symbols belong to the archetypical ones. That is why they have been also discovered with the same semantics in other languages. This is the reason why the analysis of such symbols requires not only facts documented in the dictionaries and texts in Ukrainian, but also information about the respective symbol in other linguistic cultures. It is also pointed out that the thread is analyzed as an apotropaic symbol. This word has also been documented linguistically as a symbol of the demarcation line between one’s own world and the world of «others».

ON STORYTELLING AND OTHER “TRIFLES”IN THE TERMINOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE METHODOLOGY

The article focuses on the most wide spread English loan words in the terminological systems of language and literature methodology. Attention is mainly given to those foreign words that do not meet phonetic and morphological rules of the Ukrainian language. Key reasons for popularization of the English loan words in terminology have been revealed, namely: laconicity, one meaning, expressiveness, desire to enhance authority of the speaker and his/her profession. Examples from the Internet sources show that teachers of language and literature as well as scholars actively use -ing words (сторітелінг, кардмейкінг, лепбукінг, скрайбінг, скрапбукінг, etc.). The texts illustrate sometimes in appropriate an discorrect usage of the English loan words that have not become established yet: one can often face doubts regarding spelling of the foreign words,there are lexical mistakes caused by misunderstanding of the loan word. In appropriate usage of the aforementioned English loan words is also proved by the fact that these word shave not adapted to the Ukrainian language, and therefore they often are rendered in the Ukrainian texts in the language of the original. The article offers possible variants of replacing in appropriate English loan words with proper Ukrainian language means (words and word combinations). Usage of English loan words in the speech of teachers of language and literature should be limited, as these words have unclear semantics and, consequently, the pupils may misunderstand them or miss their meaning completely. Excessive use of quasiterms, forexample, сторітелінг, кардмейкінг, лепбукінг, скрайбінг, скрапбукінг gives the text pseudoscientific character and makes it not understandable for the pupils. In this way the pupils are imposed the ideas at all the terms are loan terms, and modern sciences do not use Ukrainian, giving exclusive preference to English. Certainly, it is true that English plays an important role in the modern world, as it is the language of international communication in Europe and worldwide. However, automatic borrowing of the English words, which do not correspond to Ukrainian grammar does not enrich our language but ruins it. Each of the above mentioned English loan words can be replaced with equivalents from the already existing words and word combinations. Use of word combinations instead of one-lexeme English borrowings is not a drawback as it is important for the pupils to understand the term and its transparent semantics.

Імпресіоністична поетика новел В. Вулф „Королівський сад” та М. Коцюбинського „Intermezzo”

The article compares two examples of modernist short stories of the early twentieth century – „Kew Gardens” by the British writer W. Woolf and „Intermezzo” by the Ukrainian writer M. Kotsyubynsky. Such a comparative study has been carried out for the first time. Most researchers associate Woolfe with „stream of consciousness” literature, but in the short story „Kew Gardens” we see signs of impressionist poetics. “Intermezzo” by M. Kotsiubynsky is traditionally regarded as an example of impressionism. In both texts, the narration is in the first person, there are elements of the „stream of consciousness”; the opposition of social and natural worlds is shown. The narrators in both short stories enjoy the contemplation of nature. The English literary writing contains a fragmentary composition, combining disparate, unrelated episodes. In the Ukrainian text, we observe the internal evolution of the main character-narrator, who is internally reborn in the bosom of nature, filled with new forces. Differences between short stories: Virginia Woolf depicts several visitors to London’s Kew Gardens; Kotsyubinsky creates an autobiographical image of the writer, who is reborn under the influence of nature. In both literary writings, sound, visual, tactile images play an important role, in particular, images of flowers, a snail (W. Woolf), summer fields, the sun, larks, three white shepherd dogs (M. Kotsyubinsky). Both literary writings are examples of the psychological mood of the modernist novella. A comparative analysis of the two texts allows us to compare the Ukrainian literary process with world trends.

The modern Ukrainian academic linguistic stylistics: A strategy of the integrative development

This article offers an analytical review of the Department of Stylistics, Culture of Language, and Sociolinguistics’ study outcomes in 1991—2021. It focuses on the publications with the expanded linguo-stylistic analysis and the developing of the terminological system of Ukrainian stylistics. The authors reinterpret a term style and concept of language culture and outline the contribution to the development of structural stylistics, i.e., linguistic text analysis, and interpretive stylistics from the Department staff also naming major studies which determined the connection of linguistic stylistics with the history of Standard Ukrainian and establishing the significant role of historical stylistics. Being determined by the view of language as a system of signs the structural approach in linguistic stylistics dominated at early stages the Ukrainian stylistics formation. The paper advances a new idea regarding the fluidity of the modern system of functional styles and the need to revise and restructure their socially significant hierarchy with respect to the linguo-cultural and communicative-pragmatic reinterpretation of integrative linguo-stylistics. The interdisciplinary aspects of functional-stylistic and genre-stylistic researches are the following: linguoculturology, linguofolkloristics, linguosophy, linguopersonology, linguoconflictology, discourseology, media stylistics, legal linguistics, psycholinguistics, ethnolinguistics, and linguistic expertise. The conclusion evaluates the digital methods to process texts in Standard Ukrainian and the need to create lexicographic sources of stylistic terminology and expand the aspects of stylistic lexicography. Keywords: linguo-stylistics, style, culture of language, norm, interdisciplinarity, research method, integrative linguo-stylistics

Communicative phenomenon of the old Ukrainian miracle play “Oleksiy, the man of God”

The subject of this research focuses on the communicative and pragmatic structure of dramatic texts of the 17–18th centuries. The aim of this article is to analyse the miracle play “Oleksiy, the Man of God” (Alexius, the Man of God) as a communicative act. The method of semantic-stylistic analysis was used to elicit the semantic and stylistic peculiarities of the language means and patterns of their use. Context and situational analysis, as well as interpretative analysis, were used to identify textual elements with additional pragmatic meaning; the analysis of actual material was conducted in line with the principle of historicism, i.e. taking into account the correspondence of the linguistic and lingual stylistic system of the texts to the time of their creation. The Results of the Study. The dramatic text holds a specific place in the system of artistic communication, since it stands as a meaningful reproduction of the communicative process. A key feature of any dramatic text is dramatis personae that are put at the beginning of the play and who, as a rule, can be related to real people in real situations. The old Ukrainian baroque drama mainly takes the forms of drama mystery play and miracle play. The character system in “Oleksiy, the Man of God” reflects the social structure of society at that time, and the characters’ speech correlates with the speech of real people and stands as its textual embodiment. The process of author’s describing the real picture of the world is the main author’s intention, which coincides with the illocution in the dramatic text. The article analyses the communicative past and communicative future of certain characters. The analysis concentrates on the stylistic means used by the author to enhance the impact on the addressee and create the intended communicative effect, in particular wordplay techniques. The role of extratextual elements that help decode the author’s idea and achieve a perlocutionary effect has been determined. The prospects for further research include studying pragmatic and stylistic function of the phenomenon of variability of the speech genres in old Ukrainian texts of the 17–18th centuries.

FLORAL COMPONENT AS THE ENTRY OF VIRA VOVK’S SPIRITUALITY: SELF-IDENTIFICATION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HER CREATIVE WORK

The article analyzes the life path of Vira Vovk and key images of her work with a special emphasis on the role of plant symbols, and the influence of sacred ideas on the artist and her faith in God. Attention in the article focuses on the self-identification of Vira Vovk as a purely Ukrainian poetess with her own life position. At the same time, the course of analysis of the author's biography and bibliography circles around her sincere love and devotion to Ukraine, in particular – the admiration of the beauty of her native land, the granting of special significance and symbolic meaning to floral dimension, which is clearly illustrated by examples of donna Vira's lyrical lines. The sacred level and divine beliefs are covered, on the one hand, on the examples of the artist's poetry, on the other – taken from the sphere of journalism about Vira Vovk, namely, from interviews with poetess within literary evenings, conferences, round tables. The article outlines significant instructions to the younger generation of writers: here we are talking about the use of Ukrainian images, plots, historical background of our Motherland, without the involvement of foreign motifs and style. We will try to reveal the secret of "lameness" of the Ukrainian text through the eyes of Vira Vovk and the role of the Ukrainian author's style in the context of the formation of a young writer. In addition to the purely literary level and the analysis of the emigration author's work, we also intent to show Vira Vovk as a sophisticated person, whose literary roots germinated deeply from the Ukrainian land, absorb the entire color of the Ukrainian mentality, world view and reveals in her work. The means of expressiveness outline the divine direction of her poetry: her faith, exclusive intuition, openness to people and purity of thought.

LANGUAGE POLICY AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT AS FACTORS IN THE FORMATION OF GENDER-SPECIFIC UKRAINIAN EUPHEMISMS AND DYSPHEMISMS

This article examines the formation and functioning of gender-specific euphemisms and dysphemisms (i.e. referring to men or women) in Ukrainian literary texts written in the period from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. The study has a historical, socio-cultural, and political dimension, as it attempts to describe the impact of language policy, culture, and historical context that prevailed in Ukrainian society during this period, on the development, formation, and functioning of the analyzed stylistic figures. The analysis of the data shows a clear prevalence of dysphemisms in the works of the authors studied. Moreover, we note that the majority of entries belongs to the familiar and vulgar register from different sociolects (jargon and argo elements). The study of euphemisms and dysphemisms brings to light the representations of men and women which prevailed at certain times and persist in Ukrainian society today.

Термін «представлення» у філософських текстах та їхніх перекладах

The article is devoted to the terminological problem of adequate Ukrainian translation of the Polish term "przedstawienie", which is a generic term to denote visual and abstract works of human intelligence. In the available Ukrainian texts, visual works are usually denoted by the term "ujavlennia", abstract – by the term "poniattia". However, these two species terms still do not have in the practice of Ukrainian word usage an established generic term that generalizes them. In general, there are two versions of the Ukrainian translation of the term "przedstawienie": "predstavlennia" (representation) and "ujavlennia" (idea). Both options from a formal-grammatical point of view have both advantages and disadvantages. Their comparative consideration, involving the experience of using these terms in Polish (for the translation of their English, German and other equivalents) – is the main content of this article. The causes and consequences of differences in the use of the term "representation" in Ukrainian dictionaries – both encyclopedic and specialized, linguistic and psychological - are compared and analyzed. The author attempts to analyze the philosophical aspects of the use of the term "representation" in its relation to representations as concrete (visual) representations and concepts as abstract (non-visual) representations. Analyzing the influences on Ukrainian terminology from the Polish and Russian languages, the author argues in favor of the actual Ukrainian etymology of the term "representation" as a generic term. The Ukrainian language often involves the interchangeable use of the terms "predstavlennia" (representation) and "ujavlennia" (idea) as generic. Also in recent years, there has been a discussion in Ukrainian science about the possible use of the term "image" as a derivative of the term "image". Mostly Russian language influences as a basis for such use are proved. However, arguments are given regarding the priority of using the term "representation" as a generic language in the Ukrainian language. This is closer to the Polish language. The author presents the main arguments of the philosophical discussion on the term "representation", which took place in Polish philosophy.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ПЕРЕКЛАДУ ТУРИСТИЧНИХ РЕКЛАМНИХ ТЕКСТІВ

The article reveals the concept of tourist discourse, provides its main parameters and characteristics, as well as, through comparative analysis, analyzes examples reflecting the features of tourist advertising texts in English and Ukrainian. It is difficult to imagine the existence of a modern person without travel related to professional activities, recreation, the search for new sensations and many other aspects of human existence. In one area, different cultures are not suppressed as much as in tourism. In the field of tourism business, advertising is spreading rather quickly and widely, thanks to the unrelenting interest in tourism services. So, great attention should be paid to the study of the phenomenon of advertising text, and in particular the problems of its translation. Analysis of modern literature has shown that we can talk about the existence of the so-called language of tourism, is universal and does not depend on a specific language. Also, some authors have developed a concept of algorithmic translation of tourist texts, which includes several sequential stages. The results of the study showed that tourism discourse is a subtype of advertising discourse, which contains a number of universal characteristics inherent in texts written in such diverse languages as English and Ukrainian. Among such characteristics are: the use of the imperative mood, comparative and superlative degrees of comparison of adjectives, the choice of emotionally colored, positive vocabulary in order to influence the potential consumer of travel services. The findings can be applied in translation practice when working with texts of tourism discourse, as well as in further research.

BIBLICAL ARCHETYPES IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDY “KING LEAR” AS THE IMPLICIT REFERENCE TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE: VERBALIZATION AND PECULIARITIES OF REPRODUCTION

The article presents the Translation Studies analysis of William Shakespeare’s tragedy “King Lear” and its fi ve Ukrainian translations done by Panteleimon Kulish, Panas Myrnyi, Maksym Rylskyi, Vasyl Barka and Oleksandr Hriaznov. The attempt has been made to outline the Biblical archetypes in the source text and to trace the level of their reproduction in the Ukrainian target texts. On the basis of the research conducted, it has been assumed that by means of various allusions and themes parallel to the Biblical ones, the reader of the tragedy encounters the Biblical archetypes of the Christ, Job, Devil, Cain and Abel. The author of the article also scrutinizes how these archetypes are actualized in the text in question through various verbal images and examines the level of their reproduction in the target texts. Key words: Shakespeare, “King Lear”, translation, biblical archetypes, Bible, allusion.

The Sentiment Analysis Model of Services Providers’ Feedback

The purpose of this paper is to develop a hybrid model Ukrainian language sentiment analyzer, which should improve the accuracy of the mood definition to expand the Ukrainian language among the instruments on the market. The object of research is the processes of determining the language of the text and predicting its sentiment score. The subject of the study is Ukrainian comments posted by Google Maps users. The following text categories are taken into account: food, hotels, museums, and shops. The new method was built as an ensemble of support vector machine, logistic regression, and XGBoost, in combination with a rule-based algorithm. The practical use of the algorithm makes it possible to analyze the Ukrainian text in accordance with the category with the visualization of the research results. The accuracy of the proposed method is bigger than 0.88 in the worst case. The mining procedure of the positive and negative sides of service providers based on users’ feedback is developed. It allows electronics business to make improvements based on frequent positive and negative words.

COMICAL IN V. FOKIN’S TRANSLATION OF “RUSLAN AND LUDMILLA”

In the late XVIII – early XIX ct. in the Russian empire appeared several poems that used the literary and folklore sources in the humorous way. Some of them become classics, and helped to define the development of the later literary tradition. In Ukrainian literature we see I. Kotlyarevskiy’s “The Aeneid”, that is much more than another travesty of Virgil’s poem. This text became an encyclopedia of Ukrainian culture, and even its “lower registers” paradoxally creates the feeling of the sublime. Russian classical text was “Ruslan an Ludmilla” by A. Pushkin that is much more lyrical (as opposite to epic) and intimate in nature, and where the comical element is mostly seen in the narrator’s gentle humor. The existing Ukrainian translations of the poem are talented, but lacking in some special feeling of naturalness. To achieve the effect of the spontaneity, V. Fokin decided to create not a word-by-word translation, but a retelling, using the authentic material of Ukrainian language and tradition. In this, the heritage of Kotlyarevskiy, especially, his specific comical touch, was of much help. Generally, the new Ukrainian text of “Ruslan and Ludmilla” is a successful retelling of the classical story for the new audience, and a proof that Ukrainian language is much richer and subtler than it is sometimes thought.

Distributional semantic modeling: a revised technique to train term/word vector space models applying the ontology-related approach

We design a new technique for the distributional semantic modeling with a neural network-based approach to learn distributed term representations (or term embeddings) – term vector space models as a result, inspired by the recent ontology-related approach (using different types of contextual knowledge such as syntactic knowledge, terminological knowledge, semantic knowledge, etc.) to the identification of terms (term extraction) and relations between them (relation extraction) called semantic pre-processing technology – SPT. Our method relies on automatic term extraction from the natural language texts and subsequent formation of the problem-oriented or application-oriented (also deeply annotated) text corpora where the fundamental entity is the term (includes non-compositional and compositional terms). This gives us an opportunity to changeover from distributed word representations (or word embeddings) to distributed term representations (or term embeddings). The main practical result of our work is the development kit (set of toolkits represented as web service APIs and web application), which provides all necessary routines for the basic linguistic pre-processing and the semantic pre-processing of the natural language texts in Ukrainian for future training of term vector space models.

Textual history of apiary scene from Panteleimon Kulish’s novel “Chorna Rada”

The paper deals with the textual history of the scene in the apiary (Chapter 2) of Kulish’s novel “Chorna Rada: Khronika 1663 Roku” (“The Black Council: A Chronicle of the Year 1663”). Throughout the 14 years, from 1843 (when a creative vision of the novel arose) to 1857 (when both Ukrainian and Russian versions of “Chorna rada” were published), the text of the novel remarkably changed. In the analyzed scene, the most significant changes were made in the characteristics of the ‘ideological person’ Bozhyi Cholovik (Man of God). This character was transformed when the author just began writing both versions of “Chorna Rada”. In the original Russian text (1845), he was portrayed as an ancient-like old man and a strongly built Cossack-philosopher, while in the Ukrainian text (1846), he appeared as a blind blessed elder with prophetic vision, detached from ‘vanity of vanities’. Also, in the original text of both versions of the scene in the apiary, characters Mykhailo Cherevan and Vasylii Nevolnyk (Slave) were more detailed than in the final published text. In particular, in both early texts, the author tells a story of how Vasylii Nevolnyk broke free from slavery in Turkey. As a result of all changes in the text, the analyzed scene became more expressive in artistic terms, and characters — more holistic. The comparison of the two versions leads to the conclusion that they are textually interrelated, though significantly different, being translations of each other and at the same time the original works. The researcher extensively quotes the fragments not included in the published text of “Chorna Rada”. A part of the lost text from the original Ukrainian version is being reconstructed based on the original Russian version of the novel.

SEGMENTALIA UND SUPRASEGMENTALIA DES UKRAINISCHEN

The article is dedicated to the study of the current state of segmental and suprasegmental phonetics and phonology of the Ukrainian language reviewed from the recent comparative investigations. In the focus of the research there is the analysis of phonemes’ syntagmatics and paradigmatics as well as the survey of the word stress realizations and the peculiarities of Ukrainian intonation as contrasted to German. The phonetical and phonological peculiar features of sound system and structural types of syllables in Ukrainian are also analyzed. Besides, Ukrainian word stress and intonation are studied as well as the phonetic realization of Aesop’s fable “The Sun and the Wind”. The research has been focused on the functioning of phonemes in the strong and weak position, in stressed and unstressed syllables. The typological discrepancies on the segmental and suprasegmental levels have been made distinct. The peculiarities of transcribing and transliterating Ukrainian texts in German have also been studied. The following conclusions have been arrived at. Ukrainian intonation differs from German intonation by the melody of interrogative sentences. The most relevant words in the utterance, the so-called semantic centres, are tonically realized at the highest pitch level with the subsequent fall, the intensity is maximum. The semantic centre in the Ukrainian texts under investigation is in the final part of the utterances, while in spontaneous speech the position of the centre may vary.

Is there a Ukrainian Short Story?

At the end of the XIX century in the US, immediately after the establishment of the short story, a discussion began about the short story and short fiction. Since that time the short story was distinguished as an independent genre, and its theory has developed and gained a central role in socio-cultural discourse. The process of the distinguishing of types of short fiction has also occurred in different national literatures. In the article it is stated that contemporary Ukrainian texts give reasons to begin a discussion about redefining types of short fiction. Special attention is dedicated to the short story genre. Despite the fact that Ukrainian short stories exist, they are not defined in one certain term. Moreover, the theory of the contemporary Ukrainian short story has not yet been broadly developed. The aforementioned terminological ambiguity and need for further research signify certain cosio-cultural peculiarities of Ukrainian literature. Short story by Etgar Keret, a prominent Israeli writer, and a short story by Volodymyr Dibrova, a well-known Ukrainian author, are included. Such illustration demonstrates the typological affiliation of Dibrova`s text to the short story genre and in a broader context, the presence of high quality short stories in Ukrainian literature.

ТЕРМІНИ-ПАРОНІМИ ТА ПИТАННЯ КУЛЬТУРИ НАУКОВОГО МОВЛЕННЯ


 
 
 
 The article deals with the issue of the culture of the Ukrainian scientific text, in particular, the difficulty in ensuring accuracy as a communicative feature of speech due to paronyms in terminology of various sciences; it also outlines the views of modern linguists on this lexical and semantic phenomenon, presents the definitions available in the scientific literature, analyzes semantic and structural features of these units, the ways of creating them and distinguishing between them, and illustrates the classification characteristics of full and partial paronyms by the example of linguistic terminology.
 
 
 

The language of totalitarianism in the mirror of a single text: article by Andrii Khvylia “From the slope - into the abyss”

Background. During the rule of the Soviet system, texts in Ukrainian appeared, which became a kind of expression of totalitarianism. Ideologemes forced through linguistic practices of the totalitarian era are still present in the public space of Ukraine, in particular because they were introduced and reproduced not only in Russian but also in Ukrainian.Purpose. The purpose of this exploration is to analyze the article by Andrii Khvylia “From the Slope - into the Abyss” as part of linguistic practices of Soviet totalitarianism.Methods. A discursive approach allows us to establish the facts important for understanding linguistic embodiment of totalitarianism in Ukraine.Results. Saturation of the text by lexemes пролетаріат (proletariat), пролетарськім (proletarian) with different semantics erases the conceptual differences between the words they refer to. The lexeme партія (party) is often used without definition комуністична (communist). The Bolshevik Party is perceived as the only one possible, endowed with unique qualities and powers. The article uses the symbol of October, which is traditional for the Soviet texts of later days. Repetition of ми (we), наш (our), in various forms, actualizes the ideological unity of the author, reader, and other members of the society. Through constant repetition of ideological labels, ворог (enemy), націоналізм (nationalism), фашизм (fascism), the reader remembers them. Appraisals, explicated through the context of use of words, get into the mind. The lexemes український (Ukrainian), фашизм (fascism), націоналізм (nationalism) are combined into a single associative array, creating the negative image of Ukrainian.Discussion. The article by Andrii Khvylia demonstrates ways and means of influencing social consciousness inherent in totalitarianism. Ideologically labeled lexemes пролетаріат (proletariat), пролетарський (proletarian), націоналізм (nationalism), фашизм (fascism) have abstract meanings and serve as an expressive function, expressing positive or negative appraisal. The lexemes партія (party), Жовтень (October) become sacred. Distribution of the text of the article in the form of a separate brochure is caused not only by the need to condemn M. Khvyliovyi, but also by the desire to plant ideas that contribute to strengthening of tiie regime. The purpose of the subsequent surveys should be to study the influence of Soviet totalitarianism on the public consciousness of Ukrainians through texts in their native language in different periods of its existence.Article received 29.07.2019

Підхід до виявлення аномалій в потоках тектових даних

Збільшення потоків інформації веде за собою необхідність розробки спеціалізованих інтелектуальних засобів та методів для обробки величезної кількості даних. Так популярність соціальних мереж, різного роду месенджерів вимагає створення спеціалізованих засобів для обробки потоку текстових повідомлень. Дане дослідження присвячене дослідженню та розробці методу виявлення аномальних елементів в потоках текстових даних. Особлива увага присвячена підтримці україномовних текстів.

AGAT-Syntax as component of computer-based Ukrainian grammar

Abstract: The article describes functional features of the syntactic module of computer-based Ukrainian grammar AGAT. This is a linguistic type of computer-aided syntactic analysis, which provides full information about syntactic units and categories, in particular, predicativity, coordinate and subordinate clauses, the categories of subject and predicate etc. The developed linguistic software provides syntactic analysis of a whole sentence in the form of a dependency tree and indicates the types of syntactic relations and links. The AGAT-syntax task is to identify all varieties of compatibility – predicative, subordinate, and coordinate – of each word in the text. The grammatical characteristics of the phrase directly depend on which part of the language its keyword belongs to. The lexical and grammatical nature of the word determines its compatibility to the other words. Accordingly, phrases can be divided into substantive, adjective, pronouns, numeral, verbal and adverbial. Computer sub-grammars of valencies of the said parts of the language are built by us on a single principle: a lexema is indicated, preposition that participates in government and a case of a substantive word form in the shape of a two-letter code. In theory, according to their composition words combinations (phrases) are divided into simple, complex and combined. Dependency tree is built from two elements – nodes and connections. Nodes are wordforms and connections are relationships between the main element (“master”) and dependent element (“slave”). It enables to describe a configuration, a form, external parameters of a sentence but this is not sufficient to describe a sentence structure. Thus, the syntactic analysis has two levels: the first one attributes to each binary pair a type of syntactic relationships on the level of morphological way of expression of a “master”; the second level attributes to the connection a type of syntactic relationships, which include: subjective, objective, attributive, adverbial, completive and appositive modifying.. In such a way, the cycle of automated syntactic analysis of Ukrainian texts is completed by determining the syntactic word-combination, identifying a type of syntactic link and a type of relationship. It provides full range of characteristics that can be used for systemic study of semantic and syntactic problems. Keywords: automated syntactic analysis, dependency tree, syntactic relations, syntactic links.