Basic English Syntax with Exercises

Suggested answer for Exercise 7

In the bracketed structure each pair of brackets represent a unit, like nodes do in the tree. Thus each node in the tree can have a corresponding pair of brackets in the bracketed structure. The strategy is to take a look at all nodes in the tree and to determine which words of the sentence are dominated by the particular node. To each node we will have a corresponding pair of brackets:

[K [I a [J b c]] [L [P d] [M e [N f [O g h]]]]]