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Old 09-May-2007, 21:22
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I am having the worst trouble putting this sentence into a tree diagram:

The team from Iraq joined the Olympics


What shoudl go under the verb phrase? i had it like this

NP: The(article) Team (noun)
VP: from Iraq (PP)


and then whaT?
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The PP from Iraq describes the NP the team, so it's part of that NP, not part of the VP:

[[NP The team from Iraq] [VP joined the Olympics]]

Does that help?
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