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> So even syntax–highlighting natural language. Grammar highlighting, as it were.

Not as fine-grained as individual items of grammar, but we essentially already do this and have for almost as long as writing has been a thing. Headings in bold, things that you want to emphasise in body text in italic or bold, hyperlinks underlined and/or in a different colour, …

Highlighting by grammar might be useful in language analysers/translators, for those of us trying to learn a second, though being able to pick from a selection of rules would be needed for it to be truly useful: sometimes I might want words agreeing with each other (subject->verb, subject->adjectives) in a colour of their own, sometimes specific word types (is abierto the past participle of abrir here, or the adjective?). Or verb tenses. You could perhaps do both tense and agreement, highlighting the stem by tense and the suffix with the same colour as the subject, and object pronouns the same colour as any relevant adjectives, but this is likely to make the colouring system too complex to be useful at a glance. On anything more than a single simple sentence something more dynamic might be better here, not highlighting anything by default but when something is hovered over have it and relevant things spring into colour appropriately, you'll only need small set of colours in that case rather than one for each subject/object in a longer paragraph with trying to match the same subject/object to a set colour consistently throughout.

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I always enjoy to find people who think so drastically differently than myself. This sounds like an absolute nightmare to me and I would gauge my eyes out.
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I don't even seen the paragraphs anymore, just sentence diagrams!

Here's Claud attacking your post:

http://schnecke.bombcar.com/random/sentence_diagram.png

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I think that's a good idea, altho you can probably get away with good old NLP to do it.
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Were in an era where virtually all sw could have an mcp intf to do anything...not even just color.
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Apparently I was not the first to have this thought. See

https://english.edward.io/

https://github.com/SichangHe/natural_syntax

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