Demonstrating syntax of a sentence

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How to draw syntactical trees with parallel leafs for a natural language?

Consider page 4 in following paper: Pantcheva 2007

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Which package can be used to draw a similar structure? (As elegant as possible)

Duplicate of How to draw syntactical trees with parallel leafs for a natural language?. — Alan Munn, May 22 '12 at 14:36
the subscripts "Poss" and "def" would look better if they were set with \mathit or \mathrm (not sure of common practice, but these are abbreviations, not strings of variables). that being said, i also think this covers the same territory as the question cited by Alan Munn. — barbara beeton, May 22 '12 at 14:58
@barbarabeeton Yes, that's a consequence of the subscripts being simply $_...$ and should be as you suggest (upright would be more appropriate.) — Alan Munn, May 22 '12 at 15:09
I had seen the duplicate comment, but since there's no pstricks answer in the other question, I thought I'd add it here. — dgs, May 22 '12 at 16:09

Gonzalo Medina · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-22T14:19:50.810

There are several packages available: qtree, TikZ has built-in features to build trees, and tikz-qtree which combines features from the first two. Here's a simple example taken from the documenation of the tikz-qtree package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\tikzset{edge from parent/.append style={very thick}}
\Tree [.S [.NP [.Det the ] [.N cat ] ]
                 [.VP [.V sat ]
                          [.PP [.P on ]
                                   [.NP [.Det the ] [.N mat ] ] ] ] ]
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 22 '12 at 15:46

Besides tikz you can also use pstricks, more specifically pst-tree. The syntax is \pstree{root}{successors}, where root and successors are one of the available node types, e.g. \TR, or another (nested) \pstree. More details are given in chapter 8 of the package documentation.

pstricks figures can be compiled by using latex=>PS=>PDF or any of the alternatives given on the PSTricks website.

Code for Gonzalo Medina's example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pst-tree}

\begin{document}
    %formatting
    \psset{levelsep=1.5cm,nodesepA=6pt,nodesepB=6pt,edge=\ncline}
    %main tree with root
    \pstree{\TR{S}}{
        %left subtree
        \pstree{\TR{NP}}{
            \pstree{\TR{Det}}{
                \TR{the}
            }
            \pstree{\TR{N}}{
                \TR{cat}
            }
        }
        %right subtree
        \pstree{\TR{VP}}{
            \pstree{\TR{V}}{
                \TR{sat}
            }
            \pstree{\TR{PP}}{
                \pstree{\TR{P}}{
                    \TR{on}
                }
                \pstree{\TR{NP}}{
                    \pstree{\TR{Det}}{
                        \TR{the}
                    }
                    \pstree{\TR{N}}{
                        \TR{mat}
                    }                               
                }                           
            }
        }
    }
\end{document}

This is really not an ideal solution for linguistic trees, since there are much better solutions out there with respect to the input syntax. A better pstricks solution would be pst-qtree. It's by the same author as tikz-qtree. — Alan Munn, May 22 '12 at 16:28
Thanks, I was not aware of the package. The brevity of the qtree syntax obviously is compelling. — dgs, May 22 '12 at 16:45

Demonstrating syntax of a sentence

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