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"Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover anything new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them."
This is the first sentence from the introduction to David Hume's A Treatise on Human Nature, written in 1739-1740.

The diagram above was created by Antelope, from Proxem. It can be downloaded for free.
https://www.proxem.com/en/technology/antelope-framework/



Parsers ("a program that works out the grammatical structure of sentences,"  as quoted from the Stanford NLP page)
http://demo.ark.cs.cmu.edu/parse    (You can create a sentence diagrammed like the one above if you type or cut and copy a sentence on this site.)
http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/submit-sentence-4.html
WordNet (a lexical database)
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Concordancer  (Home page and sentence page)
"A concordance gives a list of several words, phrases, or distributed structures along with immediate contexts, from a corpus
or other collection of texts assembled for language study," as quoted from the lextutor.ca website.
http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/
http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/sentences/
Recommended: Use AWL (Academic Word List), BNC (British National Corpus), Graded Readers, and Graded Book



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