er standard, as far as I can tell, to call the top level parts of a
declarative sentence "noun phrase" and "verb phrase"  I.e.,

.................sentence
................../   \
.................NP    VP


JRV: The verb phrase is further decomposed including noun phrases (e.g.,
indirect objects phrases -- also called verb complements) as constituents.
I'm, by no means an expert on this stuff, and if I've missinterpreted your
comment, please set me straight.

GH2&gt;&gt;&gt;	You've interpreted me correctly.