[NLP] Detecting verbs

What's a simple algorithm (simple == no academia robodick sucking neural network bullshit) to pretty consistently find a verb in a given sentence? I wish to create a bot. I'm thinking of using a dictionary, I just don't know how to work out the details.

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geocities web site

Neocities

Finding a verb in a sentence means understanding all the rest of the sentence. Dictionaries alone won't do it for you. You have the AI-hard problem of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_understanding

which has been solved by ghost.pl in Perl, MindForth in Forth, and

http://ai.neocities.org/FirstWorkingAGI.html -- not a "text box" -- in JavaScript for Internet Explorer.