Antoine Dodson’s famous sentence, diagrammed.

Correcting his errors led us to discuss, not Antoine’s colorful language or movement, but the difference between present progressive verbs and predicate participial adjectives, as well as the peculiarity of the American parsing of the verb “must,” whose past tense is “had to” and which therefore lends itself to an idiomatic present tense of “got to.” We also noted, in passing, the repeated infinitive “hide,” a rhetorical gesture reminiscent of the previous week’s diagrams from famous speeches.

From Lucy Feriss’ article here on The Chronicle of Higher Education. Hat tipped to Kim Middleton.