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Some Notes on Drawing Syntactic Trees. In any ‘Introduction to Linguistics’ course, there comes a time when you are asked to use Phrase Structure (PS) rules to draw syntactic trees for various sentences of English. In this class, our PS rules for English currently look as follows:
Drawing Detailed Tree Diagrams. Linguistics 222. March 11, 2013. 1 Drawing Trees: Practice. Draw trees for the following sentences. You should fully expand all XPs with more than one word|only use triangles for 1-word XPs!
This practice exercise helps students develop skills in syntactically analyzing sentences, identifying their key constituents, and creating hierarchical tree diagrams of such sentences. Completing all of the sentences successfully provides an option to download and print a certificate of completion.
Structural Ambiguity Exercise. LING 222 Spring 2013 Hedberg. I. Explain the two different meanings associated with each of the following three sentences. II. Draw tree structures that explain the ambiguity structurally and identify each with its meaning. Sam wears a bright yellow shirt. Mary works out in the background. Jack decided on the boat.
(a) Draw the phrase structure tree for the Ivatan sentence in (A). [2 points] (b) Think about what the trees for the Ivatan examples in (B-C) would look like (you do not need to draw the trees). It is not straighforward to draw the tree structures for (B-C). Explain what the problem is. (You do not need to solve the problem.) [2 points]
A1.7 Draw a Tree Step-by-Step. Here are some step-by-step instructions on how to analyze sentences and then draw a tree of them. Notice that before you start drawing, you should analyze the structure of the sentence! You are much more likely to draw it correctly that way.
Having examined movement operations from a variety of word positions (e.g., Wh-word, Aux-word, wanna contraction and negative clitic movement) we can begin to look at the next level of language (the phrase) and see if movement can likewise be found.
