Sapling // Project Details

<< Back to Overview

Sapling is a graphical editor designed for linguists to create and manipulate syntax trees directly in the browser. It provides an intuitive drag-and-drop interface for building tree structures commonly used in syntactic analysis.

Used by Linguistics professors and students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Washington.

Created for making syntax trees in Jorge Hankamer's Syntax 1 class, UCSC Fall 2020.

Technology Stack

  • Frontend: JavaScript (ES6+), p5.js, HTML5 Canvas API
  • Concepts: Tree data structures, DOM manipulation, event handling

Links