![]() ![]() ![]() And that's what I did: using a grammar book, I've parsed this massive sentence using human calculation alone, and rendered it in pencil using the traditional sentence diagramming method that I was taught as part of my Catholic school upbringing in the US. Parsing the grammar for this stream-of-consciousness sentence isn't possible using a computer: it's such a tricky beast that assessment by hand is the only option. ![]() This is an ongoing project where I am exploring how to visualise the underlying grammar structure of a sentence.īecause I don't do things by halves, I thought it might be best to start with the sentence that was the longest published sentence in the English language for most of the 20th century: Molly Bloom's soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses, which is 4,391 words long. Note: some of the text of this sentence may affect your delicate sensibilities, if so, please look away now (James Joyce is no prude) ![]()
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