Comparative Study between IC Analysis and Tree Diagram Analysis
IC analysis is a kind of analyzing the English language, which is based on the assumption that any English syntactic structure can be cut into immediate constituents as described above.
Tree diagram is a two dimensional diagram used in T.G. grammar as a means of displaying the paternal hierarchical structure of sentences. The root of the tree diagram is as the top most point, consisting of the initial symbol S. form this point of mode, branches, descend corresponding to the categories which are specified by the roles.
IC Analysis and tree diagram are a method of sentence analysis that was first mentioned by
Leonard Bloomfield and developed further by Rulon Wells. The process reached a full blown strategy for analyzing sentence structure in the early works of
Noam Chomsky. The practice is now widespread. Most tree structures employed to represent the syntactic structure of sentences are products of some form of IC-analysis and tree diagram. The process and result of IC-analysis and tree diagram can, however, vary greatly based upon whether one chooses the constituency relation of
phrase structure grammars (= constituency grammars) or the dependency relation of
dependency grammars as the underlying principle that organizes
constituents into hierarchical structures.
§ IC-analysis and Tree Diagram in phrase structure grammars
An important aspect of IC-analysis and tree diagram in phrase structure grammars is that each individual word is a constituent by definition. The process of IC-analysis and tree diagram always ends when the smallest constituents are reached, which are often words (although the analysis can also be extended into the words to acknowledge the manner in which words are structured). The process is, however, much different in dependency grammars, since many individual words do not end up as constituents in dependency grammars.
§ IC-analysis in dependency grammars
IC-analysis and tree diagram are much different in
dependency grammars. Since dependency grammars view the finite verb as the root of all sentence structure, they cannot and do not acknowledge the initial binary
subject-
predicate division of the clause associated with phrase structure grammars. What this means for the general understanding of constituent structure is that dependency grammars do not acknowledge a finite
verb phrase(VP) constituent and many individual words also do not qualify as constituents, which means in turn that they will not show up as constituents in the IC-analysis. Thus in the example sentence
This tree illustrates IC-analysis according to the dependency relation, many of the phrase structure grammar constituents do not qualify as dependency grammar constituents:
Based on the immediate constituents, there are four basic types of syntactic structures. Each type can be described as follows:
A. Four Basic Types of Syntactic Structure.
1. Structure of Modification
This type of syntactic structure consists of two components parts or two immediate constituents: a) head (H) and modifier (M).
Examples:
a) 
c)
b) 
2. Structure of Predication
This type of syntactic structure consists of two components or two immediate constitutions (ICs): a) Subject (S) and b) Predicate (P).
Examples:
a.
b.
3. Structure of Complementation.
This type of syntactic structure consists of two immediate constituents (IC): a) Verbal element (V) and b) Complement ©.
Examples:a.
b.
4. Structure of Coordination.
This type of syntactic structure consists of two or more syntactically equivalent units joined in a structure which functions as a single unit.
Examples:
The example of tree diagram
The man has some books.
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