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Comment by kragen

15 days ago

ASCII art Reed–Kellogg sentence diagrams are probably hard to find anywhere, and Graphviz can't really express Reed–Kellogg diagrams. But Reed and Kellogg published their somewhat ad-hoc diagram language in 01877, 78 years before what we now call "linguistics" was known in the West thanks to Chomsky's work in 01955. These are among the reasons I thought it might be a good idea to use the form of sentence diagrams used by linguists instead of the more compact Reed–Kellogg diagrams.