Tree Diagrams / Labelling Phrases - Mrs. Stephens

[Pages:46]Tree Diagrams / Labeling Phrases

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Example with brackets

How would you divide this sentence into phrases? The children put the toys in the box

[The children] [put [the toys] [in [the box] ] ]

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The Main Phrase Structure Rules

1. S NP VP

S- Sentence NP-Noun Phrase

VP- Verb Phrase

2.

NP

(Art)

(AP)

N

(PP)

Art- Article AP- Adjective Phrase

N- Noun

3. VP (Aux) V (NP)

PP- Prepositional Phrase

Aux- Helping Verb

4. PP P (NP)

P- Preposition

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Up Side Down Trees

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Sentence (+ Infl)

Phrases

(Phrases) Syntactic Categories Words

Drawing the tree diagram

The Phrase

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How to Build a Tree (O'Grady, p. 181)

Example - Phrase Tree (1)

play with the toy VP

VP

V

PP

P

NP

Det N

play

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with the toy

Draw the tree Structure of phrase

1. repair the telephone 2. the success of the program 3. a film about pollution 4. move towards the window 5. The end of the road *With your table decide if each is a

NP or VP*

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Draw the tree Structure of phrase

VP

NP

V

Art

repair the

N

telephone

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