formatting,diagrams,tikz-styles,trees – Creating Tree Diagrams with Filesystem Branches in TikZ

Question

I am trying to draw this tree diagram exactly:

I edited my code and it looks better, but still needs more work.

Here is the code and result:

\usetikzlibrary {trees}
\tikz [font=\footnotesize,grow=down, level 1/.style={->, sibling distance=20em},
,level 2/.style={->, sibling distance=8em}, level distance=3cm]

\node {Temporal Expressions}
   child { node {Tense}
      child { node {Past} }
      child { node {Present} }
      child { node {Future} }
  } ...

When I pass the following code to with this option to {Aspect} node:

 child [->, edge from parent fork down, sibling distance=30mm, level distance=30mm] { node {Aspect} ...

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The output displays as this:

Any suggestions to fix?

Answer 1

This can be done with forest, but it requires some manual adjustment because of the way the folder style interacts with the standard style.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[edges]{forest}
\forestset{fold/.style={folder, grow'=0, s sep=0pt},
    arr/.style={edge=-latex}}

\begin{document}

\begin{forest}
    for tree={font=\footnotesize, parent anchor=south, child anchor=north}
    [LINGUISTIC TIME, s sep=1cm
        [TENSE, arr, for tree={fold}, before computing xy={s-=5mm}
            [Present]
            [Past]
            [Future]]
        [ASPECT, arr, l+=3.2mm, s sep=1cm
            [Grammatical, arr, for tree={fold}, before computing xy={s-=5mm}
                [Perfective]
                [Imperfective]
                [Progressive]]
            [Lexical, arr, l+=3.2mm, before computing xy={s-=5mm}
                [Atelic, forked edge, for tree={fold}, before computing xy={s-=5mm, l-=5mm}
                    [States]
                    [Activities]]
                [Telic, forked edge, for tree={fold}, before computing xy={s-=5mm, l-=5mm}
                    [Accomplishments]
                    [Achievements]]]]]
\end{forest}

\end{document}