We deal here with interjections like yes, no and please and their foreign-language equivalents.
When forming a complete utterances by themselves, these have category S[intj]:
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S[intj]
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Likewise if they appear as the object of a speech verb (treat them as direct speech even if there are no quotation marks):
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S[b]\NP
< 0
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If they appear next to a another sentence, VP, or NP, treat them as modifiers:
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S[b]\NP
> 0
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NP
< 0
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