Many eyes, an IBM data visualization experiment, provides a very interesting method of visualizing continuous text (like speeches, or phrases). Essentially, you choose a start word and it creates something akin to a dendrogram or tree for all the sentences that follow that word, generally broken up by the verb that follows the chosen word.
There's an example here: http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/page/Word_Tree.html
While there are some interactive components, I just care about the graphic itself.
Is there an existing way to do this in R? If not, can you think of a way to do it (in R)? I'm at a loss for how they break it down. I'd hive off rep for a solution but will accept a well thought out idea as well.