------------------------------------------------------- Comments avan vannoo parses fine The inflection for the other 2 isn't working. The inflecting rules are not being applied to these cases, although I can create the verb, and inflect it for tense. You're problem is right here: ; Inflection for question marker -oo or -ee suffix quest-verb-rule := infl-add-only-ltol-rule & [DTR verb-lex, INFLECTED +] & [SYNSEM.LOCAL.CONT.HOOK.INDEX.SF ques] . This rule requires something that is verb-lex as its daughter, precluding the application of any lexical rules in between. Since it's a word-to-word rule, it should work just to say [INFLECTED +] and [HEAD verb] on the daughter. 1. Implemented a lexical rule to add the nominal form to the verb in the embedded clause. (I ended up with 3, since I wasn't sure how to write a case that included all the verb types while excluding other types.) The trick is to create a supertype to the three verb rules that you want, and then have that supertype be the value on the DTR of the nominalizer rule. daraivar kaar etauttatx kutataikala kanatau driver car take-PAST-NOM child-PL see-PAST The children saw the driver take the car Something's broken in the semantics for this one: The MRS only has the predicates from the embedded clause, which suggests that something has an underconstrained RELS value. In fact, it must be these guys. They should be no-ccont. ; Inflection for NOML marker, to indicate an embedded clause nomnl1-verb-rule := infl-add-only-ltol-rule & [DTR past-verb-rule] . nomnl2-verb-rule := infl-add-only-ltol-rule & [DTR pres-verb-rule] . nomnl3-verb-rule := infl-add-only-ltol-rule & [DTR futr-verb-rule] . Furthermore, these aren't adding any constraints, so you're going to get overgeneration. For example, the verbs with -atx can head matrix clauses in your grammar right now, which I suspect you don't want. 2. I created a lexical type for the imperative which contrains the ; Imperative verbs ; constrain the head daughter to be form imp imp-verb-lex := imp-head-opt-subj-phrase & [ HEAD-DTR.SYNSEM.LOCAL.CAT.HEAD.FORM imp ]. In the naming conventions "lex" is the suffix for lexical types, so it is odd here on the type for a phrase structure rule. 3. I wrote inflection rules for the 2 types of imperatives. One is not inflected, and the other is. ; Lexical rule to mark the verb as an imperative form imp-verb-rule := infl-add-only-ltol-rule & [ SYNSEM.LOCAL.CAT.HEAD.FORM imp, INFLECTED - ] & [ DTR verb-lex, INFLECTED -]. imp-pol-verb-rule := infl-add-only-ltol-rule & [ SYNSEM.LOCAL.CAT.HEAD.FORM imp-pol ] & [ DTR verb-lex, INFLECTED +]. I think you've confused the feature INFLECTED with the type inflecting-lex-rule. The former indicates whether the word has gone through enough lexical rules to be fully-formed. ([INFLECTED -] corresponds to 'lexeme' and [INFLECTED +] corresponds to 'word'). The latter indicates whether the rule involves any spelling change. Assuming no further affixes attach after the -ka/-0 indicating imperatives, they should both be lexeme-to-word rules, but imp-verb-rule should be a constant-lex-rule while imp-pol-verb-rule should be an inflecting lex rule. If that's not clear, please ask for clarification :-) In addition, there are two further problems with your imperatives: 1. They don't constrain the SF, and so are not having any semantic effect. 2. They don't constrain the subject to be second person (this is why you're getting them all over the place). It should be straightforward to have the imp-verb-rules constrain the C-CONT.HOOK.INDEX.SF to imp and the SUBJ...LOCAL.CONT.HOOK.INDEX.PNG.PER to second. You could even define a supertype to the two rules which includes this information.