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In a perfect world, your parser would include the referents for the adjectives, which would solve the problem lickety split, but I assume that's not an option here. Are you ok with only discovering adjective-noun pairs? I don't know if pure SQL includes string manipulation / regex, but I think you could go without if you are willing to add a column. My SQL is super rusty, so I'll just do this in broad strokes. How about something like: Add a sequentially numbered autogen column that's pure integer. (Unless you have string manipulation -- in which case you could just work on the "key" column). Then something like: SELECT * FROM table WHERE autogen IN (SELECT (autogen-1) FROM table WHERE word = "king") AND part_of_speech="adjective" I think you should be able to do something like that.... If you have string manipulation and you don't want to add an autogen column you should be able to do something similar with a lot of horrible string tweaking. Also, fair warning that the query could balk if "King" happens to be the first entry in the table. On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > How might I write an SQL query to find all the descriptions of good kings > and bad kings in my database? > > I have a table that looks something like this: > > key word part_of_speech position > --- --------- -------------- -------- > w1 The article 1 > w2 righteous adjective 2 > w3 king noun 3 > w4 solved verb 4 > w5 all adjective 5 > w6 the article 6 > w7 problems noun 7 > w8 Your noun 8 > w9 evil adjective 9 > w10 king noun 10 > w11 over adverb 11 > w12 taxes verb 12 > w13 us pronoun 13 > > And I want to list how kings are described. In this example, kings are > both righteous as well as evil. How can I implement this in pure SQL? How > do I find all words where the given word is "king" and the previous word is > an adjective? > > — > Eric Morgan >