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pc: > This comparing apples and pears -- almost the same thing but not > quite. the parse is a strictly linear and binary breaking of the > sentence to determine whether it is grammatical and how it is > constructed according the this particular grammar (the official one). > This is meant to be very close to the syntactic structure of the > sentence but pretty obviously is not identical with it. Although I am familiar with the distinction between a parser and a grammar, I have not come across a distinction between a parse -- the product of the parser -- and a grammatical structure -- the structure assigned to the sentence by the grammar. Can you elucidate the distinction? --And.