Michael,

 

I'm getting back into RK diagrams in order to use them this summer with an undergrad class.  Leaving the "when" out, since we don't have a main clause, I'd do the rest of the clause like this.  Email doesn't let me underline or put words on a diagonal.



	we      |       were            \     away

	                       \                         \             

	                         still                     distance

	                                                         \

	                                                            some

	 



"some distance away" is an adverb phrase serving as subject complement.  "still" modifies "were", and I agree with you on "some" and "distance".

 

Herb



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	It seems to me that away modifies were; distance modifies away; and some modifies distance. 



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		A teacher in my department came to me this morning for help diagramming this clause from a Fitzgerald sentence: when we were still some distance away.  What should she do with distance? 



		Dawn 



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