Your examples can indeed be parsed but you have to agree some effort is required To parse these sentences I think we are not just using our unconscious linguistic competence We re using all of our cognitive facilities to understand them i e we re solving them the way we would solve a puzzle Our parsing unit i e Wernicke s area can t finish the job alone otherwise these sentences would parse as effortlessly as any other sentence I think there s a back and forth between semantic clues grammatical constraints and general intelligence