Definite Clause Grammar - Representing Features

Representing Features

Various linguistic features can also be represented fairly concisely with DCGs by providing extra arguments to the functors. For example, consider the following set of DCG rules:

sentence --> pronoun(subject), verb_phrase. verb_phrase --> verb, pronoun(object). pronoun(subject) --> . pronoun(subject) --> . pronoun(object) --> . pronoun(object) --> . verb --> .

This grammar allows sentences like "he likes her" and "he likes him", but not "her likes he" and "him likes him".

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