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134 lines
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Python
134 lines
5.0 KiB
Python
# Chomsky random text generator, version 1.1, Raymond Hettinger, 2005/09/13
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# http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440546
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"""
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CHOMSKY is an aid to writing linguistic papers in the style
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of the great master. It is based on selected phrases taken
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from actual books and articles written by Noam Chomsky.
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Upon request, it assembles the phrases in the elegant
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stylistic patterns that Chomsky is noted for.
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To generate n sentences of linguistic wisdom, type
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(CHOMSKY n) -- for example
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(CHOMSKY 5) generates half a screen of linguistic truth.
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"""
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leadins = """To characterize a linguistic level L,
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On the other hand,
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This suggests that
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It appears that
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Furthermore,
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We will bring evidence in favor of the following thesis:
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To provide a constituent structure for T(Z,K),
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From C1, it follows that
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For any transformation which is sufficiently diversified in \
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application to be of any interest,
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Analogously,
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Clearly,
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Note that
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Of course,
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Suppose, for instance, that
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Thus
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With this clarification,
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Conversely,
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We have already seen that
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By combining adjunctions and certain deformations,
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I suggested that these results would follow from the assumption that
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If the position of the trace in (99c) were only relatively \
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inaccessible to movement,
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However, this assumption is not correct, since
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Comparing these examples with their parasitic gap counterparts in \
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(96) and (97), we see that
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In the discussion of resumptive pronouns following (81),
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So far,
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Nevertheless,
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For one thing,
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Summarizing, then, we assume that
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A consequence of the approach just outlined is that
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Presumably,
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On our assumptions,
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It may be, then, that
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It must be emphasized, once again, that
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Let us continue to suppose that
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Notice, incidentally, that """
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# List of LEADINs to buy time.
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subjects = """ the notion of level of grammaticalness
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a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort
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most of the methodological work in modern linguistics
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a subset of English sentences interesting on quite independent grounds
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the natural general principle that will subsume this case
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an important property of these three types of EC
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any associated supporting element
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the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible \
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to ordinary extraction
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the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition
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the descriptive power of the base component
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the earlier discussion of deviance
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this analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features
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this selectionally introduced contextual feature
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a descriptively adequate grammar
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the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial
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relational information
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the systematic use of complex symbols
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the theory of syntactic features developed earlier"""
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# List of SUBJECTs chosen for maximum professorial macho.
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verbs = """can be defined in such a way as to impose
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delimits
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suffices to account for
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cannot be arbitrary in
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is not subject to
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does not readily tolerate
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raises serious doubts about
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is not quite equivalent to
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does not affect the structure of
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may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate
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is not to be considered in determining
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is to be regarded as
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is unspecified with respect to
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is, apparently, determined by
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is necessary to impose an interpretation on
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appears to correlate rather closely with
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is rather different from"""
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# List of VERBs chosen for autorecursive obfuscation.
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objects = """ problems of phonemic and morphological analysis.
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a corpus of utterance tokens upon which conformity has been defined \
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by the paired utterance test.
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the traditional practice of grammarians.
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the levels of acceptability from fairly high (e.g. (99a)) to virtual \
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gibberish (e.g. (98d)).
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a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories.
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a descriptive fact.
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a parasitic gap construction.
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the extended c-command discussed in connection with (34).
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the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar.
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the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon.
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irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules.
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nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory.
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a general convention regarding the forms of the grammar.
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an abstract underlying order.
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an important distinction in language use.
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the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance \
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scope of a complex symbol.
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the strong generative capacity of the theory."""
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# List of OBJECTs selected for profound sententiousness.
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import textwrap, random
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from itertools import chain, islice
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def generate_chomsky(times=5, line_length=72):
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parts = []
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for part in (leadins, subjects, verbs, objects):
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phraselist = list(map(str.strip, part.splitlines()))
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random.shuffle(phraselist)
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parts.append(phraselist)
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output = chain(*islice(zip(*parts), 0, times))
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print(textwrap.fill(" ".join(output), line_length))
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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generate_chomsky()
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