A Manual Of Analysis And Parsing

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Excerpt from A Manual of Analysis and Parsing: Consisting of Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences The great stumbling-block in the progress of education today is not so much indifferent teach ing or questionable methods, as it is the want of true educational aim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... III. THE SIMPLE SENTENCE. COMPOUND SUBJECTS. 1. Donkeys and mules are the beasts of burden in Quito. 2. Tannin, logwood, alcohol, sulphate of copper, and sulphate of zinc have the power of coagulating albumen. 3. At night the buzzing of the bees and the sing ing of the flies are hushed. 4. Whole caravans and whole armies have been lost in the whirlwinds of sand, on the Arabian Desert. 5. Lobsters, crabs, shrimps, oysters, clams, whelks, and periwinkles are shellfish. 6. Vast sums of money and immense labor have been spent in fortifying Gibraltar. 7. Matters of war and peace, treaties, and alliances were left with Congress. 8. Innocent I., Leo I., and Gregory the Great were the three great founders of the Papacy. 9. The awkward appearance of the camel and its heavy, ungraceful movements render its appearance far from attractive. 10. The walruses' affection for their young, and their unflinching courage in defending them, are remarkable. 11. Quito, Lima, and other cities of South America are often visited by earthquakes. 12. Cotopaxi and Pichincha are two volcanoes very near the city of Quito. 13. The care and anxiety bestowed by crocodiles upon their eggs is surprising. 14. Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes are often called the New England poets. 15. Beautiful and fragrant flowers and delicate green ferns grew on the banks of the tiny stream in its course through the grove. COMPOUND PREDICATES. 1. The mason wasp, having prepared her nursery, gathers about a dozen small grubs or worms, and packs them in alive for food for the baby wasps. 2. A hot foot-bath congests the surface of the feet, draws the excess of blood from the head, and relieves headache. 3. By a fall from his horse, an Englishman lost his knowledge of Greek, ..

The task of language engineering is to develop the technology for building computer systems which can perform useful linguistic tasks such as machine assisted translation, text retrieval, message classification and document summarisation. Such systems often require the use of a parser which can extract specific types of grammatical data from pre-defined classes of input text. There are many parsers already available for use in language engineering systems. However, many different linguistic formalisms and parsing algorithms are employed. Grammatical coverage varies, as does the nature of the syntactic information extracted. Direct comparison between systems is difficult because each is likely to have been evaluated using different test criteria. In this volume, eight different parsers are applied to the same task, that of analysing a set of sentences derived from software instruction manuals. Each parser is presented in a separate chapter. Evaluation of performance is carried out using a standard set of criteria with the results being presented in a set of tables which have the same format for each system. Three additional chapters provide further analysis of the results as well as discussing possible approaches to the standardisation of parse tree data. Five parse trees are provided for each system in an appendix, allowing further direct comparison between systems by the reader. The book will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners in the areas of computational linguistics, computer science, information retrieval, language engineering, linguistics and machine assisted translation.