As I recall, appositives in R-K diagrams are put in parentheses, so I
think it should look something like this (although, frankly, I rarely
use R-K diagrams, so I may be off here):
(that)
------
.
.
who | . has | rating
----+---------------
|
|
polls | say | / \
-------+------------
| |
|
President Bush ( / \)| is making | adjustments
----------------------+------------------------
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Karl Hagen
Department of English
Mount St. Mary's College
Kischner, Michael wrote:
> Wow, this is getting too fancy for me. "Who polls say has a lower rating" is an appositive? Having shown a Reed-Kellogg of diagram of this portion coul you possibly show a diagram of the (abbreviaed) whole thing, including "Pres. Bush is making adjustments. . .."? Thanks!
>
>
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> It's a supplementary (i.e., nonrestrictive) relative, as well as an
> appositive. It's what Huddleston and Pullum call a "fused relative" --
> that is, the relative element is both the head of the entire appositive
> (which is thus an NP) and the subject of the embedded relative clause.
>
> Karl Hagen
> Department of English
> Mount St. Mary's College
>
>
> Kischner, Michael wrote:
>
>>Karl:
>>
>>Could you tell me how you see the relation of "Polls say (that) who has
>>a rating" to what I would call the main clause -- "President Bush is
>>making adjustments. . ."?
>>
>>MK
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Karl Hagen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:47 PM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Help with parsing
>>
>>The relative clause is embedded inside the content clause, and 'who'
>>comes from the subject of the content clause. It's reasonably common for
>>the relative pronoun to originate inside an embedded clause like this.
>>Ignoring the modifiers of 'rating', a Reed-Kellogg would look something
>>like this (view in a fixed-font):
>>
>>
>> (that)
>> ------
>> .
>> .
>> who | . has | rating
>> ----+---------------
>> |
>> |
>> polls | say | / \
>>-------+------------
>> |
>>
>>Karl Hagen
>>Department of English
>>Mount St. Mary's College
>>
>>
>>Kischner, Michael wrote:
>>
>>
>>>A colleague asked about this sentence:
>>>
>>>"President Bush, who polls say has the lowest approval rating any
>>>second-term President, is making adjustments to his Social Security
>>>proposal."
>>>
>>>The "who" seems to introduce a relative (adjectival) clause, but that
>>>"who" also seems to introduce the noun clause that's the direct object
>>
>>
>>>of "Polls say." I guess the question is about the "Polls say" clause.
>>>I can't make a Reed-Kellogg diagram of it work.
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