A method to generate simplified Systemic Functional Parses from Dependency Parses

Systemic Functional Linguistics provides a semiotic perspective on language. The text analysis described in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) can be of critical value in real-world applications. But parsing with SFL grammars is computationally intensive task and parsers for this level of description to date have not been able to operate on unrestricted input. This paper describes a graph-based method to automatically generate simplified SFL mood and transitivity parses of English sentences from Stanford Dependency parses and a database providing transitivity categories for each verb.