American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century
American linguists in the 19th century pioneered sentence diagramming techniques. James Brown introduced construing with brackets, Barnard used pictographic symbols, Peirce employed a chain-link structure, and Reed and Kellogg popularized modern diagramming.
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In the 19th century, American linguists delved into diagramming sentences as a means to visualize the intricate structure of the English language. James Brown's "American Grammar" (1831) introduced construing, a method using brackets to isolate major and minor sections in sentences. Frederick A. P. Barnard's "Analytic Grammar" (1836) employed pictographic symbols to mark different parts of speech within sentences. Oliver B. Peirce's "The Grammar of the English Language" (1839) utilized a chain-link structure to connect subject and object circles with assertives and relatives. Solomon Barrett's "Principles of Grammar" (1845) metaphorically compared sentence structure to an old-growth tree, emphasizing branching connections in language. Stephen Watkins Clark's "A Practical Grammar" (1847) introduced a system resembling modern sentence diagramming, focusing on scalable relations between words and phrases. Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg's "Higher Lessons in English" (1877) popularized a system for diagramming sentences that is still taught in American schools today. These efforts aimed to provide a systematic approach to understanding and analyzing the English language's grammatical structure.
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8 commentsFor whatever reason, it all fell into place easily using that method.
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/sengram-sentence-diagramming/i...
(FYI: I am the developer).
To be fair, it laid everything out well, and it did help me understand English better.
I find that book reader to be very unappealing, and for this Fremont Older book, which I'm currently writing about:
https://archive.org/details/myownstory00oldegoog
I downloaded the PDF. I think they should have done that here, too and extracted some actual diagrams.
I guess I'm arguing that if you did training in the formalism of a parse-tree, I wonder if it tends to re-inforce a view in "proper" use of a language rather than it's emergent behaviour and shifts of meaning.
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