this example is taken from the article here. an alternative convention for showing dependencies is now used, different from the convention above. since the syntactic functions are not important for the point at hand, they are excluded from this structural analysis. what is important is the manner in which this ud analysis subordinates the auxiliary verb "will" to the content verb "say", the preposition "to" to the pronoun "you", the subordinator "that" to the content verb "likes", and the particle "to" to the content verb "swim".