Actually we were using the Read-Kellogg system in College in 1989-93. Not sure where this 1960's stuff came from. I didn't graduate High School until 1984, and then went to College in 1989, and it was still in use then. I'd say after looking at that "binary" system, the Read-Kellogg system is much easier to understand.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Pastor David Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
