Thank you for your reply. I was trying to get the Read-Kellogg system. I am poor in English sentence structure and parts of speech because I spent 40 years of my life in Mexico and only 14 here in the US. I am an anglo and US citizen. Just rough in my true native language. I will try the tree form you list below. Thank you very much. David Cummings
--- On Wed, 10/22/08, John Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: John Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] diagraming a sentence with open source software? To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 5:43 PM 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]
