Tour Page 1 - Introduction
These screen shots illustrate the program's high-level capability.
The first shows 2 clauses being matched at one time. The text entered is:
The tall American bachelor had been lying. The annoyed woman became enraged.
In this screen, the lower right corner shows that the screen is displaying the second
of two clauses. The rest of the screen displays the clause details. These details
include the clause type, which is an SVC - subject, followed by a subject complement
- where the clause links the woman to what she became: enraged.
The subject of the clause displayed are the words "the annoyed woman" which includes
the noun woman and its 5 potential meanings and the word annoyed, a past participle
of a verb.
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Note that the predicate display shows the meanings for the verb "became". The "more"
button shows the detailed grammatical information about that element, and the "all
senses" button shows the meanings for the lead element.
The second screen shows how time - a key element in our brain and therefore our
language - is identified within a predicate phrase.
The woman on the ship enraged the dockhand on Monday.
The clause shown here is analysed in more detail below.
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The clause's subject includes a location. "Where was the woman? On the ship".
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This screen is similar in function to the clause screen. Each element can be drilled
into for information on the grammatical structure and their meanings. The meanings
of words shows those meanings that are valid within the clause found based on experience.
For example, the running water will show a single meaning for the word running and
the word water, despite the dictionary having multiple meanings, because when put
togther there is only one pattern that relates the two.
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