Essentially, the tree model works something like this example, in which S is a sentence, D is a determiner, N a noun, V a verb, NP a noun phrase and VP a verb phrase:
S
/ \
NP VP
/ \ / \
D N V NP
/ \
D N
The resulting sentence could be The dog ate the bone. Such a tree diagram is called a phrase marker. They can be represented more conveniently in a text form, (though the result is less easy to read): in this format the above sentence would be rendered as:
((The dog) (ate (the bone)))or
((D N) (V (D N)))or
1.1. The 1. dog 2. ate 3.1. the 3. bone.
or
dog ate bone
the the
1.2. The 1.1 black 1. dog 2. barked 2.1 all night 2.2 until the break of day.
Subject Verb Object Conjunction
dog none
black barked
the
night
all
until
day
break
of
the
