This is a way of diagramming Japanese sentences which I came up with. The
Ross-Kellogg (line diagram) for English sentences doesn't really work for
Japanese for a number of reasons, hence this Venn Diagram format.
Basically, particles "wrap" the objects they decline, and/or connect them to other objects. Check out the example below:
Note how below I have removed the "layered" approach to the
no-delimited modifiers and just make the
noes connectors as elsewhere in the diagram. Please note how in both examples the
koto wraps the whole main sentence, making it a noun phrase, which can then be used as the object, i.e., declined both as a possessive by the Little Mermaid (Princess) and by making it simultaneously the object of the act of ratting the Little Mermaid out to the king.
Please try to understand how the above works, post questions, even questions about the
actual vocabulary, and I will try to answer them here, and bring questions to
class next time.
It seems that the quality of these pictures is a bit low. When I zoom in, it is quite blurry and I cannot make out the kanji well.
ReplyDeleteI'll try uploading an image with a higher quality, if I can. I probably have better-resolution ones on my camera.
DeleteOkay, when I used the full-size file, I think it is much, much clearer and you should be able to see all of the characters with no problem. Please let me know how you go!!
ReplyDeleteThe pictures are much clearer now. Thanks for updating them.
ReplyDelete下右にある緑の字は、どういう意味ですか。
ReplyDelete「電話で」つまり、電話を使って、王様にのばれること。Noun "telephone" declined to instrumental case (with "de") as the instrument used to rat out the Mermaid Princess (緑の右上にの「人魚姫様」) to the King.
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