Here are some line diagrams of Psalm 136 I made on Accordance. I should have done more but here are verses 1-8.
Here are page 1 and page 2 in pdf form.
In a future post, we’ll go through the in’s-and-out’s of Reed-Kellogg line diagramming. Its very easy and most of you are probably familar with it. The equals sign (=) does not mean ‘equals’, it symbolizes apposition. And items in parentheses (( )) show ellipsis.
One of the good things about RK diagramming is that it makes syntax easy to understand for English speakers. But if you’re not a native English speaker or if you want to diagram a language other than English, it has its problems, the most noticeable being word order manipulation for the sake of the diagram (which isn’t really a problem if you know what you’re looking at). In addition to further explanation of RK diagrams, we’ll also get into other diagramming methods, X’ in particular. For those who want more info for line diagramming in biblical languages, try Kantewein’s Diagrammatical Analysis.
So I guess no one diagrams anymore.
I am on holiday for the next two weeks. You are probably right – I think these kinds of dependency graphs are likely not used much. My son-in-law noted that he seldom used them for teaching. When you mentioned diagrams earlier, I thought you were considering diagrams related to parsing. Our discussion was on the tense and aspect as well as the governance of the verbs – In particular the question as to why or is it significant that the verb is a Hiphil participle?
Of course – the smiting is self-caused as one can read from the sequence of the plagues – why didn’t I think of this before? (Mr. undisciplined!)
Dependency graph?
Parsing diagram?