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...the morn, That Wakened the Priest all shaven and shorn, That married the Man all tattered and torn To the Maiden all forlorn, That milked the Cow with the...Cat, ' That killed the Rat, That ate the Malt, That lay in the House, That Jack built. It was my lot while doing my work as bishop b Nebraska to spend...

...worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog...the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. This is the maiden all forlorn that milked the cow with the crumpled...

...that Jack built. I'll toss him with my twisted horn. I wonder how he'll like that? Maiden. This is the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog...the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. I'll have to take her away and milk her. Game Bossy ! Come Bossy...

...that crowed in the morn That woke the priest all shaven and shorn That married the man all tattered and torn That kissed the maiden all forlorn That milked...the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. On a more prosaic level, if you were asked for the differential with...

...The very same words can be rearranged to make an equivalent sentence anyone can understand: This is the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt. The first sentence is hard to understand because so many verb processes interrupt one another that...

...the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built. -- This is the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the...worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, lu That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden...

...Think of pronouns. "John hit the ball and then he ran to first base." Or relative clauses. "This is the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built." Or passives. "The ball was hit by Jack." Or pragmatics—our ordinary...

...two stages of embedding. Thus, base sentences of the complexity of the familiar nursery rhyme This is the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built need not be encountered. consider the sentence John believes that...

...words than can be processed in a sentence. (For example, consider the nursery rhyme that ends: ". . . that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built".) There is also another reason to suppose that recurrent connections...