sentence diagramming

Debbie, welcome to A2K. When one diagrams a sentence, simply locate the complete subject of that sentence and the complete predicate. The rest are modifiers, be they phrases or dependent clauses.

For example, what do you see to be the subject of your example, and what do you see to be the verb(plus modifiers). Then separate the subject and the predicate with a line. Put all modifiers of both under the appropriate classification. I am a bit surprised that you are required to diagram since that practice has been obsolete for some time.

Thank you for your response!

According to your instructions is the following correct?

__ye| go_______________________________
\therefore \into __world__
\all \the
|teach__________ |nations_______
\all_nations? or \all?

|baptizing____________|them____?
\in _name_______________
\of _Father \of__Son |of HG


I hope you can understand the above...can you make any corrections to it? The diagram is made to prove a point...Thanks!

When I hit the send key..it changed the layout of the diagram...so it appearing incorrect..

I'll try to do this in writing..

YE = Subject
Go, teach, baptizing = a triple predicate
nations? not sure what this is...direct object?
them? not sure what this is...direct object?

therefore - adverb modifying verb go
into all the world, prepositional phrase modifying Go
all - adjective modifying nations.
nations - is this a direct object?

them - direct object?
in the name - prepositional phrase modifying baptizing
of the Father - prepositional phrase modifying name
of the Son - prepositional phrase modifying name
and - ?
of the Holy ghost - prepositional pharase modifying name

Yes, Debbie, I can make sense of your example, but the admonition from the King James translation of the Christian Bible is a bit difficult.

Ye is the subject and go and teach is the verb. The rest of the sentence contains modifiers, even "baptizing them in the name of the", etc. The trick is to put the phrases in the proper place.

Here is an example of a formalized notation for representing a sentence parse / diagram, which you may or might not find helpful:

(S (NP (NAME John)
....(VP (V ate)
..........(NP (ART the)
................(N cat))))

I have used periods to show it in indented form but since you have parenthesis, you could also write this way without indenting.

S = sentence
NP = noun phrase
VP = verb phrase
...

I am afaid you have completely lost me....
with this example

This example shows how there exists a Sentence which has 2 parts, a Noun Phrase and a Verb Phrase. The Noun Phrase has one part, a Name. The Verp Phrase has 2 parts: a Verb and another Noun Phrase. This last Noun Phrase has 2 parts: an Article and a Noun.

Thanks!