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This paper is about the syntactic structure and interpretation of [te-] typeauxiliary verb sentence in Japanese, especially, focused on the correlation betweensyntactic structure and interpretation. According to the previous studies, Japanese auxiliary-verb sentences areseparated into two types. One is [te-] type, the other is [i-] type. In this paper, wehave explained the structure of [te-] type sentences, first. All [te-] type sentenceshave a bi-clausal structure in the initial structure. But in the surface structure, some[te-] type sentences have only a mono-clausal structure which is correlated withone interpretation, and some [te-] type sentences have a mono-structure and abi-structure which are correlated with two interpretations. The above results on the correlation of structure and interpretation are provedby the scope phenomenon of the [dake-nai].