On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:09:50 -0700 (PDT) Pastor David Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> I am trying to get some kind of free software that I can use for sentence > diagrams. > At this point I cannot find any freeware that seems to do it. Is there > something in opensource that does? I have windows XP on my machine. > This is the sentence I need diagramed. I cannot seem to get it to properly > diagram the way I read it. So, electronic means would probably not make the > mistake I am making. > This sentence if from the Bible: > But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, > goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. David, Can you be more specific about what you mean by "sentence diagrams"? For example, there is the Reed-Kellogg method which was used in schools until the end of the 1960s. In the Reed-Kellogg method you draw a line for the sentence and put a vertical line between the subject and predicate, with other phrases and modifiers hanging underneath. The way we do it today is with x-bar theory. X-bar diagrams started with Chomsky (1957) and are a binary branching system. I don't know of any software that can do the Reed-Kellogg method, as it was largely abandoned before computers arrived on the desktop. If you want x-bar diagrams I can recommend Treeform. You can get information about Treeform and download links from: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~donaldd/treeform.htm While Treeform is very handy for drawing syntax trees, it does not do the thinking for you. You'll need a solid background in generative grammar to use it correctly. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
