John,

The only R&K problem I see is the "perhaps" that modifies the final 
adverbial prepositional phrase.  When a structure modifies the 
sentence as a whole, we put it on a separate line. But in this case 
it modifies a whole phrase that's within the sentence--not the 
sentence as a whole. I guess I'd attach it to "with" in the same way 
that I'd attach "extremely" to "wealthy"--but it wouldn't really be 
accurate.

R&K diagrams aren't perfect. But they do a good job of showing the 
structural relationships of sentence parts, no matter where in the 
sentence they appear, distinguishing form and function.

Other than that "with" problem, John, you can do it, I'll betcha!

Martha


>Following is an article from yesterday's "The Japan Times". I gave 
>it to a couple of my adult classes here in Tokyo for discussion; for 
>my students it perhaps was a long rather difficult sentence - but 
>interesting from the current political position:
>
>      "Amid dismal approval ratings, Prime Minister Taro Aso is 
>trying hard these days to shed his public image as an aloof, rich 
>politician from an extremely wealthy family, perhaps with an eye 
>toward appealing to voters when the time comes to call an election".
>
>I try to discuss parts of interesting newspaper articles and I 
>encourage the students to finish the rest of the article in their 
>spare time. Unfortunately most Japanese students read with a moving 
>finger and pursed lips and my objective is to try to encourage them 
>to recognize the 'chunks' of language from a mainly functional 
>perspective. Chunks of language in the form of noun groups 
>(including their adjectivals), adverbials (Circumstances in Systemic 
>Functional Linguistic jargon) and etc. This is how I went about 
>analyzing the newspaper text:
>
>
>     Amid dismal approval ratings,
>     prepositional phrase, Circumstance - adverbial (how?),
>
>     Prime Minister Taro Aso
>     Noun group, subject, Participant (in Systemic Functional language)
>
>     is trying
>     predicate verb, present continuous verb, action Process (in 
>Systemic Functional language)
>
>     hard these days
>     adverbials,(Circumstances)
>
>     [[to shed his public image as an aloof, rich politician from an 
>extremely wealthy family]]
>     Complement (is trying what?)   embedded clause functioning as a 
>Participant in Systemic Functional language.
>
>     perhaps with an eye toward appealing to voters when the time 
>comes to call an election
>     adverbial - Circumstance modifying the previous clause.
>
>
>I read aloud with the students and ask them relevant wh? questions 
>to elicit the 'chunks' of language. Comments please on this?  Has 
>anybody the ability to show this in Kellog Reed diagram form in the 
>forum?
>I like to see it diagrammed!
>
>  John
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