The longest sentence

[neoeno]

Code.

Text.

Readme:

Hello. This is a piece of software that was written with the aim of creating the longest grammatically valid sentence ever produced.

I think it worked. You can read the sentence here.

I'm going to spend a little more time and work making the sentence more detailed and intricate.

Follow me at @neoeno maybe.

Quickstart

You'll need ruby, bundler.

$ bundle install
$ ruby go.rb

How it works

It parses a subset of a tagged version of the Brown corpus and sorts every word into a bucket according to its type.

When that's done, you can give it a sentence structure to replicate. Currently, it uses something like this:

['np', 'bedz', '@the', 'jjt', 'nn']
# Proper noun, was, the, superlative, singular/mass noun
# Brian was the biggest horse.

In this case, it uses a sentence stucture which can be extended to infinity, e.g.

Alpha was the highest sense of the hottest ton, the closest ebony of the strongest possibility, the highest-paid fraternity of the youngest suit, the best exhibit of the lowest keynote, the best meat of the worthiest privilege, the closest opposition of the fastest selection, the fiercest mantle of the richest appreciation [...]

Next

I want to broaden the sentence structures to include recursive structures, e.g.

Alpha, the dog who watched TV at the pub last thursday, was highest sense of the hottest [...]

It's all infinite, but some infinites are more interesting than others...

[neoeno]

Bumping this so maybe I'll get a complete label :)

[dariusk]

Whoops, there you go!