Obama Sentence Diagram

Well, this is the height of just-too-muchery. From the article:

First, the elegant balance of the central construction (My view is that x, and that y, but also that z) shows that Obama has a good memory for where he’s been, grammatically, and a strong sense of where he’s going. His tripartite analysis of the problem is clearly reflected in the structure of the sentence, and thus in the three main branches of the diagram. (Turn it on its side and it could be a mobile.) The third “that” - thrown in 29 words into a 43-word sentence - creates three parallel predicate nouns. And then there’s a little parallel flourish at the end: “I am more interested in looking forward than I am in looking back.”

I went ahead and tried my hand at diagramming a George W. Bush sentence:

Comments

[Casey]

Awesome. Good work. Time well spent.

[Elizabeth]

Don't sentences look so complicated when they are diagrammed?
I love how they make grammatical relationships visual. Thanks for your diagrams!

[Mxrk]

Thanks, but only the bottom one is mine.