Preliminaries

• What This Module Does - An overview of the linguistics module's role and abilities.

• About Sentence Diagrams - Description and examples of the diagrams which this module turns sentences into.

• How To Include This Module - What to do to make use of the linguistics module in a new command-line tool.

Chapter 1: Setting Up

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

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

• Stock Control - To manage the stock of possible linguistic items.

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

Chapter 2: NP Categories

• Adjectives - To create adjective objects, each of which represents a single adjective which may have multiple inflected forms and meanings.

• Articles - Preform grammar for the articles.

• 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.

• Nouns - To create noun objects, each of which represents a single common or proper noun which may have multiple inflected forms.

• Pronouns - Preform grammar for the pronouns.

Chapter 3: VP Categories

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

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

• Special Meanings - To abstract non-standard, perhaps non-SVO, meanings of a verb.

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

• Prepositions - To define prepositional forms.

• Adverbs of Certainty - Adverbs such as "usually" or "initially".

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

Chapter 4: Diagramming Sentences

• Noun Phrases - To construct noun-phrase subtrees for assertion sentences.

• Verb Phrases - To construct verb-phrase subtrees for assertion sentences.