  We describe a parser of English effectuated by biologically plausible neurons
and synapses, and implemented through the Assembly Calculus, a recently
proposed computational framework for cognitive function. We demonstrate that
this device is capable of correctly parsing reasonably nontrivial sentences.
While our experiments entail rather simple sentences in English, our results
suggest that the parser can be extended beyond what we have implemented, to
several directions encompassing much of language. For example, we present a
simple Russian version of the parser, and discuss how to handle recursion,
embedding, and polysemy.
