Let the games begin

[Frank Antonson]

Online competitive sentence diagramming (CSD) will officially begin today in 2 and a half hours at Official Site for Competitive Sentence Diagramming ;) - Forums

It should be amusing at the least.

[Frank Antonson]

The first sentence was "I am Beowulf, and I will kill your monster." Easy enough.

[Frank Antonson]

The second heat in round one will be two sentences, which I will post here in 15 minutes.
Who will be the first to diagram them with any system?

[Frank Antonson]

These two sentences come from J. R. R. Tolkien. There at the door to the mines of Moria the destiny of Middle Earth hinged on Gandalf's figuring out this punctuation pun:


Speak, friend, and enter.
Speak "friend" and enter.

[Frank Antonson]