If a computer parser encounters a sentence with deeply nested clauses that exceed its stack limit, which consequence follows?

💡 Explanation

Syntactic parsing fails because the parser's stack overflows due to the number of nested clauses exceeding the stack limit. Therefore, the parser cannot build the correct parse tree, rather than any semantic or phonological processes being affected by stack overflow.

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