37.1896, Software: Merlin's Syntax Studio

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LINGUIST List: Vol-37-1896. Tue May 26 2026. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 37.1896, Software: Merlin's Syntax Studio

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Date: 24-May-2026
From: Merlin X. D. Yang [xdyang at zjut.edu.cn]
Subject: Merlin's Syntax Studio


Merlin's Syntax Studio is a free, browser-based syntax tree generator
designed for linguists, syntax instructors, and students. It converts
bracketed expressions into clean syntactic tree diagrams and supports
commonly needed notation for phrase-structure trees, including
multiline labels, visible and hidden movement indices, strikethrough
traces/copies, italic text, outline text, Greek letters, triangle/roof
notation, and customizable movement links.
The tool provides an interactive workspace where users can edit
bracket expressions and immediately preview the resulting tree.
Movement links can be shown or hidden individually, recolored, and
manually adjusted. Trees can be exported as SVG, white-background PNG,
transparent PNG, and complete Forest LaTeX code for use in papers,
handouts, slides, or Overleaf projects.
Users may work in guest mode without registration. Optional login
through email, Google, or GitHub allows signed-in users to save their
latest 20 generated trees. The interface currently supports English,
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
The software is freely available online at:
https://ailinguistics.cloud/mss/
Source code:
https://github.com/merlinxdyang/SyntaxTreeStudio
License: MIT License.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax




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