Perhaps the best way to understand how to write a link grammar for English is to study an example. The following dictionary does not cover the complete grammar of the words it contains, but it does handle a number of phenomena: verb-noun agreement, adjectives, questions, infinitives, prepositional phrases, and relative clauses.
the: D+;
a: Ds+;
John Mary:
J- or O- or (({C- or CL-} & S+) or SI-);
dog cat park bone stick:
{@A-} & Ds-
& {@M+ or (C+ & Bs+)}
& (J- or O- or ({C- or CL-} & Ss+) or SIs-);
dogs cats parks bones sticks:
{@A-} & {Dm-}
& {@M+ or (C+ & Bp+)}
& (J- or O- or ({C- or CL-} & Sp+) or SIp-);
has:
(SIs+ or Ss- or (Z- & B-))
& (((B- or O+) & {@EV+}) or T+);
did:
(SI+ & I+)
or ((S- or (Z- & B-))
& (((B- or O+) & {@EV+}) or I+));
can may will must:
(SI+ or S- or (Z- & B-)) & I+;
is was:
(Ss- or (Z- & Bs-) or SIs+)
& (AI+ or O+ or B- or V+ or Mp+);
touch chase meet:
(Sp- or (Z- & Bp-) or I-)
& (O+ or B-) & {@EV+};
touches chases meets:
(Ss- or (Z- & Bs-)) & (O+ or B-) & {@EV+};
touched chased met:
(V- or M-
or ((S- or (Z- & B- ) or T-) & (O+ or B-)))
& {@EV+};
touching chasing meeting:
(GI- or M-) & (O+ or B-) & {@EV+};
die arrive:
(Sp- or (Z- & Bp-) or I-) & {@EV+};
dies arrives:
(Ss- or (Z- & Bs-)) & {@EV+};
died arrived:
(S- or (Z- & B-) or T-) & {@EV+};
dying arriving:
(GI- or M-) & {@EV+};
with in by:
J+ & (Mp- or EV-);
big black ugly:
A+ or (AI- & {@EV+});
who:
(C- & {Z+ or CL+}) or B+ or Ss+;