People who manage parse the sentence also aren&#x27;t trying understand it, except as far as &quot;Buffalo&quot; is a proper noun denoting a city, which can be used to form then phrases &quot;Buffalo buffalo&quot; == buffalo of&#x2F;from&#x2F;belonging to&#x2F;related to Buffalo, and trying various combinations of interpreting &quot;buffalo&quot; as a noun (in various roles as subject, direct object and so on) or verb, and determining elided words such as &quot;which&quot; or &quot;that&quot; complementizers heading off phrases and embedded clauses.<p>It&#x27;s almost purely syntactic reasoning. Searching these spaces of possibilities is something which, you would think, a &quot;natural language parser&quot; ought to be doing to earn its name.<p>Nobody actually knows what it means &quot;to buffalo&quot; something; it is not necessary to know. People solve the parse in spite of knowing that there is nothing to understand in the sentence.