The deep syntactic representation (DSyntR) reflects the organisation of the sentence at the deep syntactic level.

Formally, DSyntR is a quadruplet <DSyntS, DSynt-CommS, DSynt-AnaphS, DSynt-ProsS>.

• The main or carrying structure DSyntS is the deep syntactic structure
• The DSynt-CommS is the deep syntactic-communicative structure
• The DSynt-AnaphS is the deep syntactic anaphorical structure
• The DSynt-ProsS is the deep syntactic prosodic structure

A deep syntactic representation is meant to portray the general organization of a particular sentence (or to be more precise, of a family of sentences for which one can only indicate surface syntactic or morphological differences). Thus //Peter's arrival// and //the arrival of Peter//, which have of course different surface syntactic structures, have the same DSyntS:

ARRIVAL [sg déf] --I--> PETER