A Mickey-Mouse Word Grammar
Here is a Mickey-Mouse phrase-structure grammar of English.
And here is its equivalent in Word Grammar; this grammar would actually be a network, but here
I’ve listed the individual arcs of the network to make the two grammars easier to compare.
1. word categories: [an inheritance hierarchy of non-relational word-categories]
1. noun isa word
2. determiner isa noun
3. common-noun isa noun
4. verb isa word
5. preposition isa word
6. saw isa verb
7. ate isa verb
8. walked isa verb
9. John isa noun
10. Mary isa noun
11. Bob isa noun
12. a isa determiner
13. the isa determiner
14. my isa determiner
15. man isa common-noun
16. dog isa common-noun
17. cat isa common-noun
18. telescope isa common-noun
19. park isa common-noun
2. dependency categories: [an inheritance hierarchy of relational dependency categories]
1. subject isa dependency
2. complement isa dependency
3. object isa dependency
4. adjunct isa dependency
3. valencies:
1. naming the dependents of general categories:
 verb subject noun(subj)
 verb object noun(obj)
 preposition object noun(prepobj)
 determiner complement common-noun(detcomp)
2. saying how many exemplars each allows:
 noun(subj) number 1
 noun(obj) number 0|1
 noun(prepobj) number 1
 common-noun(detcomp) number 1
3. naming dependents of particular lexical items:
 saw object noun(saw)
 ate object noun(ate)
 walked object noun(walked)
4. saying how many of each are allowed:
 noun(saw) number 1
 noun(ate) number 0|1
 noun(walked) number 0
4. adjunct ‘valencies’ (defined in terms of the adjunct’s parent rather than the parent’s
dependent, as with earlier valencies)
1. word dependent word(dep)
2. word(dep) parent word
3. preposition parent verb(preppar)
4. verb(preppar) isa verb
5. word order
1. word(dep) after word [the default order]
2. noun(subj) before verb [the special order for subjects]