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  <Title>Arguments desperately seeking Interpretation: Parsing German Infinitives</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The task of our DIPS parser consists of not only building one or more trees for an input sentence, but also of determining the grammatical function and the thematic interpretation of arguments. We have discussed the parsing strategy in detail and shown that it is adequate for the treatment not only of finite clauses, but also of non-finite clauses. This strategy relies on the following steps: immediate attachment, provisional and definitive interpretation, the testing of constraints, creation of chains, and restructuring. An argument interpretation strategy has been developed, which analyses arguments in a uniform fashion, regardless of whether they precede or follow the verb.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This strategy has been extended to handle long: distance scrambling, so that arguments are transferred from the clause in which they are attached to an embedded clause in which they receive an interpretation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> DIPS is a practical system under development, which uses a large-sized lexicon (over 150,000 entries) and which, at present, covers a large range of grammatical constructions such as simple and complex sentences, finite and non-finite clauses, active and passive voice, wh-constructions, topicalization, extraposition, scrambling, long-distance dependencies, and verb raising.</Paragraph>
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