The two main considerations in the design of this procedure were the economical recognition and representation of multiple readings of syntactically ambiguous sentences, and general applicability to “all” languages (English, Russian, Chinese). The following features will be discussed: types of structural descriptions, form of linguistic rules, use of linguistic heuristics to achieve economical multiple analyses, application to linguistic research and application to production MT systems. Also, the relation between this procedure and other existing sentence analysis procedures will be discussed.