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And Rosta scripsit: > Yes, but it was the consensus -- and if it is no longer the consensus > then it is still the default & majority position -- that the parse tree is > largely meaningless (predicate--argument structure being the > obvious albeit murky exception), and hence is a mere by-product of > the grammaticality checker. I should rather say that it sometimes produces the wrong answer, notably with the way it groups multiple sumti and the way it handles numbers, but most of the time its parse tree is quite sensible. It just is not *determinative*. -- John Cowan jcowan@hidden.email www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."