Good question! This is the whole point of parsing sentences to deduce semantic meaning.<p><i>He bent the fork</i> and <i>He could fork the Github repository</i><p>Remember the deductive reasoning puzzles when you were a kid? [0]There are some facts in these sentences and let&#x27;s use some deductive reasoning to figure it out.<p><i>He</i> followed by <i>bent</i> means that <i>He</i> has to be the subject and <i>bent</i> has to be the main verb of the sentence. The <i>the</i> following has to belong to <i>fork</i>. It is never not that way with grammar. I can go a lot deeper here but I&#x27;m going to keep this short. We can train any machine to deduce that <i>fork</i> has to be a noun and that it is a direct object of the verb <i>bent</i>. Fork means one thing in this sentence. It is a tool to eat with.<p>The modal <i>could</i> in the second sentence requires grammatically to have a verb following it. It not so much guessing what can <i>fork</i> mean, an action or an eating utensil, but rather, what is its function? <i>He</i> has to be a subject. If it was on the other side of the verb, it would be him. Because of the <i>the</i>, <i>the Github repository</i> has to be a noun phrase. By deduction <i>fork</i> has to be a verb. Therefore <i>fork</i> is an action of dividing into another part. Like I said before we can go deeper, for example, the capital G in <i>Github</i> means it is a proper noun so it can&#x27;t function as a verb and the verb takes an object. Whether a verb takes an object or not can give semantic meaning to the verb too.<p>This is an example of how the existence of <i>the</i> in a phrase allows machines to deduce meanings of the same word in different sentence.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prufrock.com&#x2F;Assets&#x2F;ClientScans&#x2F;prodscanlg&#x2F;193_sa5.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prufrock.com&#x2F;Assets&#x2F;ClientScans&#x2F;prodscanlg&#x2F;193_sa...</a>