Meaning Breaker

Breaks a sentence into lexical items

or try one of these examples:

We'll have to make do with what we have until the supplies arrive.
Come on, let's give it a try!
You gotta put up with my mind to achieve victory.
Don't mention it.
The path was empty, save for the owl, barely visible through the fog.

About

This parser breaks an English sentence into a coarse-grained list of meaningful units.

It identifies multiword expressions like idioms, phrasal verbs, and proverbs,
which might help English learners to read texts without a translator.

The parser expects a single sentence or phrase as input, so it can't parse several sentences at a time.
If it's unsure whether a verb phrase is idiomatic or not, the parser treats it like a phrasal verb.
This trade-off increases the number of false positive errors, but it makes the app more reliable.
Also, the parser is sensitive to capitalization, so please capitalize names and other proper nouns!

Acknowledgments

This project wouldn't have been possible without the English-language Wiktionary,
which is used in its machine-readable form extracted by the kaikki.org group.