Paragraphs

from The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Dideon

 

 

sentence 12: When Quintana was at UCLA and he happened to be in California he had taken an afternoon to come by the neuroscience unit and talk to the doctors there. (Didion, 2006, p. 170)

 

DEP #1

When Quintana was at UCLA

 

 

subordinator: When

function: adds a time reference to IND

DEP type: adverbial clause of time

 

subject: Quintana (proper noun)

verb: was

adverbial: at UCLA (prepositional phrase)

structure: SVA

 

 

and (coordinator)

 

DEP #2

he happened to be in California

 

 

subordinator: zero subordinator

function: adds a time reference to IND

DEP type: adverbial clause of time

 

subject: he (pronoun)

verb: happened

adverbial: to be (infinitive)

structure: SVA

 

IND

he had taken an afternoon to come by the neuroscience unit and talk to the doctors there

 

 

subject: he (pronoun)

verb: had taken

object: afternoon (common noun)

structure: SVO

 

clause combination: 1+2

sentence type: X

 

 

Reference: Didion, J. (2006). The year of magical thinking. New York: Vintage International.