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Questions tagged [syntax-trees]

Graphical representations of hierarchical analyses of grammatical relations. Requests to make syntax trees are off-topic.

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How often does an individual encounter a novel linguistic construction?

I've heard it said that most utterances we encounter on a day-to-day basis are novel. That is, the individual has never heard that exact sentence before in their life. My intuition is that the source of this productivity mostly comes from which…
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Syntax trees for unaccusatives, unergatives and ergatives verbs (MP) within the split VP framework

The course I'm taking is based on Radford's Analysing English Sentences (2009). I'm having a lot of trouble analysing sentences within the split VP framework. There are very few examples in the book (and on the Internet). I'm not sure I'm doing…
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Immediate constituent analysis

Practicing immediate constituent analysis using a "toy" context-free phrase structure grammar of English is a great way to introduce undergraduate students to syntactic analysis. In the context of a course in English syntax, the following sentence…
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tree diagrams of a question

I am having trouble drawing a syntax tree for 3 sentences and I would appreciate it if someone could help me. The sentences are: When did the man find the job?
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How to write a syntax tree for 'should have been'?

the sentence is "Will they decide if you should have been promoted?". The T' and AuxP are already taken up by 'have' and 'been, where does should go?
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I am having troubles drawing a syntax tree for the sentence "networking helps you grow your business". Can anyone help me?

I do not know if "helps" is a verb, an auxiliary verb, a tense, a complementizer phrase, or something else. Could someone attach a picture of the correct tree?
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English Syntax Tree: is the "to do X" a CP?

I have a sentence that says "He was required to work in the kitchen" (actually, another example, doesn't really matter, the question is in principle): what is the function of "to" here? Is it a complementiser? Extra question: does the second VP…
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Prepositional phrases ‘fronting’ a sentence

Hi Everybody (please help), I’m having trouble deciphering how to diagram a sentence with the adjunctive prepositional phrase at the front of the sentence. As from ‘The boy found the cat in the garden’ to ‘In the garden, the boy found the cat’ and…
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How are head nodes of a tree determined?

Below is a tree-representation of an action sequencing hierarchy, taken from Fischmeister et al 2016 (Journal Cortex). Could anyone explain (the paper does not) by which rationale the different nodes (levels) in the tree are deemed to be either…
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Wh embedded question ambiguous trees

I am having problems drawing the trees for the following sentence. I'm interested in both the pre and post movement trees for this ambiguous sentence: Lisa wondered when Bart said she saw Nelson. If anyone can help me I would be greatly…
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I am looking for some examples of syntax trees

Do you know of any good videos or sites with a variety of syntax trees. I am looking for examples to practice. I found one or two videos on youtube but not as many as I expected.
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Help with syntax tree generation with movements

This is my attempt at the sentence "Which compound appears to have been created with the recently found chemical element yesterday?" , but I'm not sure if it's correct: Is the wh-movement correct? Does the whole DP "a compound" get moved, or just…
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Is there a way to convert a syntax tree back to text?

I'm looking for a reference \ algorithm \ tool that can convert a syntax tree to text. The intention is to parse a sentence, apply some rules on the tree, and generate the output from the modified tree.
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Why are "joking aside" and "six hours ago" Postpositional Clauses?

This webpage outlines the "four grammatical forms that can function as the adjunct adverbial". In the tree underneath, I agree that "aside and "ago" are postpositions, but please see the question in the title. Why isn't the red node (not the one…
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Verbose tree diagram drawer for MP

Is there any tree diagram drawer software for English sentences which shows all features of nodes, all movements (and other things which happen like feature checking by c-command)?
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