*** Nouns: Describe what articles are allowable -- there is no "a King James", only "King James" or "the King James". General a/the/one/some/any parsing. look at the King James look at King James look at a King James <- Wrong? take a wooden shoe take the wooden shoe slyly take any wooden shoe *** Verbs: Lists of allowable adverbs, esp for socials? Or each adverb inherits from an adverb category i.e. the verb can deal with all "happy" words at once? smile happily smile cheerily smile bubblily smile with vigor smile with good cheer smile with good humor grumpily smile wanly smile thinly smile *** Verbs, Non-2nd person: tell mortimer that I should be the one to sink tell mortimer that Bob already sank tell mortimer the ship sunk tell mortimer he'd be a captain by now if he were brave and bold A verb object should be able to link (as a word) to other tenses/forms of the verb, probably including multiword. For instance: stand ----> will stand |-> stands |-> is standing |-> are standing |-> stood |-> has stood |-> standing (gerund) *** Adverbs: Break the verb-first parsing order. Keep a list, and keep track of them but keep parsing 'til we hit a verb? *** Weird sentence forms: stop looking for contraband don't look down you should avoid the place the monks are standing *** Conditionals: If Sam is looking for contraband, run. If he runs at me, flee. When the man turns toward me, look away. By the time the bandit has stood up, run away. This would require many verb tenses, and probably need to be hooked into the word graphs. *** Archetypal sentences: With a sufficiently general sentence-parsing facility, the following can all be parsed basically identically: stand on your head if you're standing on your head, stop If the monks are standing on their heads, jump Is aemilia standing on her head? When aemilia stands on her head, jump. *** Overall Structure overall: | subject (opt, may be implied) | predicate | predicate: | verb | direct and/or indirect objects | A noun phrase may be followed by a descriptive clause: My sister, the girl up there on the stump, said "Yes." My sister, who is quite silly, said "Yes." My sister, the oldest, said "Yes." A verb may be followed by a descriptive phrase: She runs over the sink She runs around the tree She runs like the wind She runs with a will She runs avidly Either may be followed by a prepositional phrase: She runs into the tree (note -- two meanings, two parses) The hamster took the bread over the rainbow The stars in the sky looked down