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Chapter V: Describing and Parsing

Language disguises thought... The tacit conventions on which the understanding of everyday language depends are enormously complicated.

...Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889--1951), Tractatus

Section 22Describing objects and rooms
Section 23Listing and grouping objects
Section 24How nouns are parsed
Section 25Plural names for duplicated objects
Section 26How verbs are parsed
Section 27Tokens of grammar
Section 28Scope and what you can see
Section 29Helping the parser out of trouble

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