Phaedrus
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Re: In other words consciousness is an illimitable power...
It turns out I got inspired to attempt a Reed–Kellog-style diagram of the sentence. The attached image visually depicts what I described in my last post. With its exotic multitude of clauses, this sentence of Henry James's seems to me uniquely suited to Reed–Kellogg diagramming. An X-bar syntax tree would, I suspect, be a ghastly monstrosity by comparison, though it would be interesting to see this diagram next to a tree.
My last post landed this thread in the General Language Discussions subforum. Should the moderators now see fit to move the thread to the Analysing and Diagramming Sentences subforum, I'd be content with that result. Being a newbie, the OP probably can't find the thread anymore anyway. I'm very curious to know what TheParser thinks of the diagram. This is my first attempt at an advanced Reed–Kellogg diagram.
It turns out I got inspired to attempt a Reed–Kellog-style diagram of the sentence. The attached image visually depicts what I described in my last post. With its exotic multitude of clauses, this sentence of Henry James's seems to me uniquely suited to Reed–Kellogg diagramming. An X-bar syntax tree would, I suspect, be a ghastly monstrosity by comparison, though it would be interesting to see this diagram next to a tree.
My last post landed this thread in the General Language Discussions subforum. Should the moderators now see fit to move the thread to the Analysing and Diagramming Sentences subforum, I'd be content with that result. Being a newbie, the OP probably can't find the thread anymore anyway. I'm very curious to know what TheParser thinks of the diagram. This is my first attempt at an advanced Reed–Kellogg diagram.
