The design firm Pop Chart Lab has taken the first lines of famous novels and diagrammed ... The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences. "I like to call it a picture of language.

The literal “diagram” comes from the Latin diagramma ... "Etymology in Architecture: Tracing the Language of Design to its Roots" 30 Jul 2018. ArchDaily. (Trans. Comberg, ...

If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a little zany. But the practice has a long -- and controversial -- history in U.S. schools.