A Chinese Box representation of grammatical structure clauses

A ‘Chinese Box’ representation of grammatical structure: clauses and groups clause A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands

Tree diagram: constituency structure A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands. A small gnome in the garden A small gnome in in the garden wiped his hands wiped wipe -ed his hands he hand -s

‘Tree diagram’ representation of grammatical structure A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands. clause group A small gnome in the wiped his hands garden group wiped A small gnome in the his hands garden word word in word the garden group wipe -ed he morphemes hand -s

The Rank Scale Clauses Groups & Phrases Words Morphemes

Names of parts: Rank Units A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands. clause group A small gnome in the wiped his hands garden group wiped A small gnome in the his hands garden word word in word the garden group wipe -ed he hand morphemes -s

‘Tree diagram’ representation of grammatical structure: down to groups A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands. clause A small gnome in the wiped garden verbal nominal group in the garden prepositional phrase in preposition the garden nominal group his hands nominal group

Rank Units: down to groups A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands. clause A small gnome in the wiped garden verbal nominal group in the garden prepositional phrase in preposition the garden nominal group his hands nominal group

The Rank Scale • clauses • groups and phrases – nominal groups – verbal groups – adjectival groups – adverbial groups – prepositional phrases • words • morphemes are made up of

A map of linguistic structure Thomas T. Tatimus has been tying his tubs tentatively to tw Ranked Constituents (minimal bracketting)

Functional structure: clauses consist of Circumstances prepositional phrases adverbial groups Participants nominal groups Process function verbal group FORM

A map of linguistic structure Thomas T. Tatimus has been tying his tubs tentatively to tw Useful as a way of decomposing a sentence into parts that can be quickly related to functional elements Ranked Constituents (minimal bracketting)