Chapter 1: Setting Up

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• Linguistics Module - Setting up the use of this module.

Chapter 2: Excerpts

• Excerpt Meanings - To register and deregister meanings for excerpts of text as nouns, adjectives, imperative phrases and other usages.

• Parse Excerpts - Given an excerpt of wording, to construct S-nodes for one or more registered excerpt meanings which it matches.

Chapter 3: Grammatical Categories I

• Articles and Pronouns - To define some elementary particles.

• Cardinals and Ordinals - To parse integers seen from a grammatical point of view.

• Determiners and Quantifiers - To create the determiners found in standard English which refer to collections of things, and to create their meanings as logical quantifiers.

• Adjectives - To record the names of all adjectives.

• Adjective Usages - A lightweight structure to record uses of an adjective, either positively or negatively.

• Nouns - Nouns are an abstraction for meanings registered with the excerpt parser which serve as names for individual things or kinds of things.

Chapter 4: Grammatical Categories II

• Verbs - To record the identity and different structural forms of verbs.

• Verb Usages - To parse the many forms a verb can take.

• Prepositions - To define prepositional forms.

• Adverbs of Certainty - To represent levels of certainty.

• Adverb Phrases of Occurrence - To parse representations of periods of time or of historical repetition.

Chapter 5: Diagramming Sentences

• Diagrams - To construct standard verb-phrase nodes in the parse tree.

• Verb Meanings - To abstract the meaning of a verb.

• Noun Phrases - To construct noun-phrase subtrees for assertion sentences found in the parse tree.

• Verb Phrases - To construct standard verb-phrase nodes in the parse tree.