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# Chomsky random text generator, version 1.1, Raymond Hettinger, 2005/09/13 

# http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440546 

""" 

CHOMSKY is an aid to writing linguistic papers in the style 

of the great master.  It is based on selected phrases taken 

from actual books and articles written by Noam Chomsky. 

Upon request, it assembles the phrases in the elegant 

stylistic patterns that Chomsky is noted for. 

To generate n sentences of linguistic wisdom, type 

    (CHOMSKY n)  -- for example 

    (CHOMSKY 5) generates half a screen of linguistic truth. 

""" 

from __future__ import print_function 

leadins = """To characterize a linguistic level L, 

    On the other hand, 

    This suggests that 

    It appears that 

    Furthermore, 

    We will bring evidence in favor of the following thesis: 

    To provide a constituent structure for T(Z,K), 

    From C1, it follows that 

    For any transformation which is sufficiently diversified in \ 

application to be of any interest, 

    Analogously, 

    Clearly, 

    Note that 

    Of course, 

    Suppose, for instance, that 

    Thus 

    With this clarification, 

    Conversely, 

    We have already seen that 

    By combining adjunctions and certain deformations, 

    I suggested that these results would follow from the assumption that 

    If the position of the trace in (99c) were only relatively \ 

inaccessible to movement, 

    However, this assumption is not correct, since 

    Comparing these examples with their parasitic gap counterparts in \ 

(96) and (97), we see that 

    In the discussion of resumptive pronouns following (81), 

    So far, 

    Nevertheless, 

    For one thing, 

    Summarizing, then, we assume that 

    A consequence of the approach just outlined is that 

    Presumably, 

    On our assumptions, 

    It may be, then, that 

    It must be emphasized, once again, that 

    Let us continue to suppose that 

    Notice, incidentally, that """ 

# List of LEADINs to buy time. 

subjects = """ the notion of level of grammaticalness 

    a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort 

    most of the methodological work in modern linguistics 

    a subset of English sentences interesting on quite independent grounds 

    the natural general principle that will subsume this case 

    an important property of these three types of EC 

    any associated supporting element 

    the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible \ 

to ordinary extraction 

    the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition 

    the descriptive power of the base component 

    the earlier discussion of deviance 

    this analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features 

    this selectionally introduced contextual feature 

    a descriptively adequate grammar 

    the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial 

    relational information 

    the systematic use of complex symbols 

    the theory of syntactic features developed earlier""" 

# List of SUBJECTs chosen for maximum professorial macho. 

verbs = """can be defined in such a way as to impose 

    delimits 

    suffices to account for 

    cannot be arbitrary in 

    is not subject to 

    does not readily tolerate 

    raises serious doubts about 

    is not quite equivalent to 

    does not affect the structure of 

    may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate 

    is not to be considered in determining 

    is to be regarded as 

    is unspecified with respect to 

    is, apparently, determined by 

    is necessary to impose an interpretation on 

    appears to correlate rather closely with 

    is rather different from""" 

#List of VERBs chosen for autorecursive obfuscation. 

objects = """ problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. 

    a corpus of utterance tokens upon which conformity has been defined \ 

by the paired utterance test. 

    the traditional practice of grammarians. 

    the levels of acceptability from fairly high (e.g. (99a)) to virtual \ 

gibberish (e.g. (98d)). 

    a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. 

    a descriptive fact. 

    a parasitic gap construction. 

    the extended c-command discussed in connection with (34). 

    the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. 

    the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. 

    irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules. 

    nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory. 

    a general convention regarding the forms of the grammar. 

    an abstract underlying order. 

    an important distinction in language use. 

    the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance \ 

scope of a complex symbol. 

    the strong generative capacity of the theory.""" 

# List of OBJECTs selected for profound sententiousness. 

import textwrap, random 

from itertools import chain, islice 

from nltk.compat import izip 

def generate_chomsky(times=5, line_length=72): 

    parts = [] 

    for part in (leadins, subjects, verbs, objects): 

        phraselist = list(map(str.strip, part.splitlines())) 

        random.shuffle(phraselist) 

        parts.append(phraselist) 

    output = chain(*islice(izip(*parts), 0, times)) 

    print(textwrap.fill(" ".join(output), line_length)) 

if __name__ == '__main__': 

    generate_chomsky()