Getting Started with Tree Builder

Welcome to Tree Builder. The following provides you with information on obtaining and running the Tree Builder application.

What is Tree Builder

Tree Builder is a fully functional editor for creating and displaying syntactic trees. In addition, it allows for the specification of a grammar consisting of phrase structure rules and a lexicon to which the syntactic trees can be checked.

Downloading Tree Builder

Tree Builder can be obtained by going to www.sittac.com and downloading the executable jar file: LinquisticSyntax.jar.

Tree Builder is written in Java 1.3 and requires that the J2SE Java Runtime Environment (JRE) be installed on your computer. This can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html.

Running Tree Builder

Note: Currently Tree Builder has only been tested on Windows and Unix.
Windows: run the program by double-clicking LinquisticSyntax.jar.
Unix/Linux: go to the directory that contains LinguisticsSyntax.jar. Type "java -jar LinguisticsSyntax.jar".