#syntax tree

[sentence-arborist]

I'm curious about the sentence "I'm going to have to love all of these things you've never seen". I have studied many things adjacent to linguistics but never linguistics so I find this blog fascinating!!

[ID: Syntax tree for the sentence, "I'm going to have to love all of these things you've never seen". The phrase "all of these things you've never seen" is interpretted as a series of DPs, with "all" as the head of the entire phrase. The tree gives off a sense of mild discomfort at this fact.]

Hello and welcome! Always exicting when someone new is dipping their toes into linguistics - it's a rich and fascinating field, and I would heartily encourage you to follow that fascination!

This tree actually caused me quite a bit of trouble, and I am honestly not 100% sold on the final version. My natural intuition is that "things" should be the head of the object NP, but then the quantifier "all of these" becomes very difficult to express neatly, so in this case I caved and did a DP analysis.

[cthulu-in-a-ballgown]

[sentence-arborist]

Request: trans rights are human rights

[ID: Syntax tree for the sentence "trans rights are human rights".]

[tiredafel]

syntax trees... my mortal enemies

[sentence-arborist]

She grammaticizes my compensatory lengthening til I head-final

[ID: Syntax tree for the sentence "She grammaticizes my compensatory lengthening til I head-final"]

[sentence-arborist]

[ID: Syntax tree for the sentence "every day I need to save money and then there is some kind of little fucking item"]

every day o need to save money and then there is some kind of little fucking item

[mallalada]

its one of those sit in front of your laptop getting closer and closer to crying over the course of 3 hours kind of nights huh

[tower-of-hana]

I am once again begging linguists to make a tool for rendering feature geometry trees on the computer.

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

Hey! So I came to your asks because I figured you might not want to put your exact latin on blast, but can I ask what conference you're at?

RALFe! it's a formal linguistics meeting thingy in Lille (France)

the formal thing explaining the LFG trendy comment lol

[sentence-arborist]

[ID: A syntax tree for the sentence "is that what your parents told you when you woke up and your pet elf was gone". It has three CPs and six IPs, which is a lot more than most other trees, due to all the levels of embedding in the sentence!]

is that what your parents told you when you woke up and your pet elf was gone

[waitineedaname]

for some reason the intro to phonology and syntax classes for grad students are also the advanced phonology and syntax classes for undergrads, which means the professors are spouting off dense syntactical theory to undergrads who have already taken the intro class with them, meanwhile there's six of us grad students sitting to the side staring at each other like this

[captainswan618]

ever since I started taking syntax I've been dreaming of making trees for the elijah wood wigs questions. today that dream has finally become reality

[savagegardensprogramming]

Programs expressed using tree structures

Officially they are called abstract syntax trees. Sometimes referred to as token trees. If you look at the images (a) thru (g) you can see the progression of how code can be represented as tree structures. Evaluating this tree is the same as executing the code.

A compiler parses your code and converts it into these tree structures before generating code. At first compilers would take the approach similar to an assembler. It would go line by line. Converting each line to code before going to the next one. That is a linear path. But then about half a century ago there were debates and discussions about structured programming and restraining the goto statement.

These trees represent the structure in structured programming. They got rid of line numbers and introduced scope rules. Code is better organized this way. One down side was that they had to discourage the use of the goto statement. Because the goto statement is like Neo in the Matrix. Its like a wild monkey that can jump to any branch it wants to. Thus breaking structure.

Anyways the brain loves this structure. For starters you can see the "chunking" right. You can see the "divide and conquer" approach. Encapsulation is also there. Every node in the tree, encapsulates its branches. For example in the example (g) the [for loop] node encapsulates the content of the for loop in its branches.

In our brain Hayakawa's ladder of abstraction is not a linear ladder. Its one of these. Its an abstract syntax tree. Our brain can go up and down these trees with with ease.

[sentence-arborist]

[ID: Syntax tree for the sentence "it is only fucken wimdy every now and then, while I forgor happens 85 times a day". It's a lot wider than most of my other trees, owing to having two main clauses, seperated by the conjunction "while".]

Not 100% committed to the analysis of "85 times a day" here, but otherwise fairly happy with this tree. The leading "the reason for this is" has been omitted to save space, but that's just another IP on top of the rest of the tree.

"I forgor" is becoming a bigger impact on my vocabulary than even "It fucken wimdy"

the reason for this is it is only fucken wimdy every now and then, while I forgor happens 85 times a day.

[alpineig]

Various syntax trees for my structure of romance languages classes. Uhhh studyblr or something

but in all truth this class has been very interesting and I'll miss it very much.

[bakuliwrites]

Entirely unrelated to anything, but I'm working on a conlang and have been for a number of years, now. As a linguist, I know that it would be good to do syntax trees for it but what if I just, like, didn't??? Because I hate them and they hurt my brain and I simply do not want to make syntax trees???