We try to make sense of them the man slept a cat hit John near the table on the cat # the cat in Juan thinks that the garage took John # Is "Xin near John" grammatical? Borderline: "Mary [who was] near the table" a sad garage believes that Xin near John thinks a ball sighed # Definitely sounds better with a determiner and common noun phrase: the red man near a garage in a garage likes John on a scary red garage # a man took John in a cat a red scary scary happy table likes a table # the garage cried in a happy sad ball