Appendix D is the section that fully demonstrates how the grammar system operates in practice. It defines a recursive set of transformation rules that modify sentence structure through things like copula removal, pronoun shifting, rhythm insertion, and verb stacking while keeping the original meaning intact. It walks through example chains like turning “The child is eating rice in the yard” into “Rice pikin dey eat chop for yard o,” showing how surface forms can drift indefinitely without losing semantic content. The appendix also highlights where standard parsers fail misreading aspect markers like “dey” or discarding rhythmic particles as noise making it a direct challenge to syntax-dependent NLP models.
Appendix D is the section that fully demonstrates how the grammar system operates in practice. It defines a recursive set of transformation rules that modify sentence structure through things like copula removal, pronoun shifting, rhythm insertion, and verb stacking while keeping the original meaning intact. It walks through example chains like turning “The child is eating rice in the yard” into “Rice pikin dey eat chop for yard o,” showing how surface forms can drift indefinitely without losing semantic content. The appendix also highlights where standard parsers fail misreading aspect markers like “dey” or discarding rhythmic particles as noise making it a direct challenge to syntax-dependent NLP models.