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Avy,
OK, I did some research but I'm not certain I understand phrase tree structure (PTS) very well. It's about linguistics, something that has never interested me very much.
Here's a paper that gives a pretty good nuts and bolts description of PTS.
http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~uffmann/psr-tree.pdf
You have to get past the use of two for to in the first sentence, though. I had to grit my teeth because I always have a tendency to dismiss anything that follows so egregious an error. In this case I gave allowance for the fact that someone may have translated this into English or else the person has English as a secondary language.
Notwithstanding, a few paragraphs down there is a PTS of a relatively simple sentence, with some explanation. It shows the inter-relationships among the words in the sentence. It does NOT reflect or teach grammar. And that's what diagramming or parsing a sentence does. The PTS is concerned with highly technical linguistics, principally the relationships between pairs of words or phrases, while diagramming teaches one how to build a good understandable sentence. Diagramming concerns the entire sentence as a structure. Gosh I hope I said that correctly.
Eleventy seven people may now step forward to correct me on this, which is fine by me since if I have misstated the technical nature of PTS I expect to be questioned.
TEd
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Verbs, transitive and intransitive Faldage 03/10/05 11:37 PM Re: Verbs, transitive and intransitive Jackie 03/15/05 01:33 AM Re: Verbs, transitive and intransitive Faldage 03/15/05 11:11 AM Re: How you say? AnnaStrophic 03/15/05 12:44 PM Re: How you say? Jackie 03/15/05 02:38 PM Re: Verbs, transitive and intransitive filmacg 03/15/05 09:42 PM Re: Verbs, transitive and intransitive TEd Remington 03/15/05 11:22 PM Re: Verbs, transitive and intransitive maverick 03/15/05 11:56 PM Re: Verbs, transitive and intransitive Avy 03/16/05 09:24 AM Re: Verbs, transitive and intransitive Faldage 03/16/05 10:34 AM Re: Verbs, transitive and intransitive Avy 03/20/05 03:58 AM Re: Verbs, transitive and intransitive TEd Remington 03/20/05 10:00 AM Re: Verbs, transitive and intransitive Faldage 03/20/05 01:58 PM Re: Verbs, transitive and intransitive TEd Remington 03/20/05 03:02 PM
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