On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:39:51 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Christopher Subich wrote:
>> Using English, because that's the only language I'm fluent in, consider
>> the sentence:
>>
>> "The horse raced past the barn fell."
>>
>> It's just one of many "garden path sentences," where something that
>> occurs late in the sentence needs to trigger a reparse of the entire
>> sentence.
>
>I can't parse that at all. Are you sure it's correct? Aren't "raced"
>and "fell" both trying to be verbs on the same subject? English surely
>doesn't allow that forbids that sort of thing. (<wink>)
>
The computer at CMU is pretty good at parsing. You can try it at
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/submit-sentence-4.html
Here's what it did with "The horse raced past the barn fell." :
++++Time 0.00 seconds (81.38 total)
Found 2 linkages (2 with no P.P. violations)
Linkage 1, cost vector = (UNUSED=0 DIS=0 AND=0 LEN=13)
+------------------------Xp------------------------+
| +----------------Ss---------------+ |
+-----Wd-----+ +----Js----+ | |
| +--Ds-+---Mv--+--MVp--+ +--Ds-+ | |
| | | | | | | | |
LEFT-WALL the horse.n raced.v past.p the barn.n fell.v .
Constituent tree:
(S (NP (NP The horse)
(VP raced
(PP past
(NP the barn))))
(VP fell)
.)
IIUC, that's the way I parse it too ;-)
(I.e., "The horse [being] raced past the barn fell.")
BTW, the online response has some clickable elements in the diagram
to get to definitions of the terms.
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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