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In Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized, Francis Andersen and A. Dean Forbes approach the grammar of biblical Hebrew from the perspective of corpus linguistics. Their pictorial representations of the clauses making up the biblical texts show the grammatical functions and semantic roles of clausal constituents, as well as the grammatical relations that bind the constituents into coherent structures....

(1.4) Unlike a labeled bracketing, a phrase marker is easily understood. For example, in phrase marker (1.4), we readily see that the proper noun ‘Gazah’ combines with a preposition (‘until’) to form a prepositional phrase (PP = ‘until Gazah’), which is one of three immediate constituents of the sentence’s verb phrase (VP = ‘he-hit [nota acc.] Philistines until Gazah’). Mathematically speaking, a phrase marker is a tree. If the phrase marker is counter-rotated by ninety degrees so that the S is
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