The invention discloses a syntactic analysis method and apparatus. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a source language sentence, wherein the source language sentence and a target language sentence are translated texts for each other; determining a state transfer instance of the target language sentence according to the source language sentence and a corresponding relationship between words of the target language sentence and words of the source language sentence; and generating a syntactic tree of the target language sentence according to the state transfer instance of the target language sentence. According to the syntactic analysis method and apparatus provided by embodiments of the invention, the syntactic analysis efficiency can be improved.