Here is my perl6 port of your code. I had to work around a thing with given/when...unless they fixed it and i didn't notice yet.

use v6;

my %dict =
(
  sentence     => [[qw/ noun_phrase verb_phrase /]],
  noun_phrase  => [[qw/ Article Noun /]],
  verb_phrase  => [[qw/ Verb noun_phrase /]],
  Article      => [qw/ the a /],
  Noun         => [qw/ man ball woman table/],
  Verb         => [qw/ hit took saw liked /]
);

sub generate ($phrase) {
 given $phrase {
    when .does(List) { return $phrase.map:{generate($_)} }
    if (defined %dict.{$_}) { return generate( %dict.{$_}.pick) }
    else { return  [$phrase] }
 }
}

sub gen_sentence () { generate("sentence").join(" ").say };
gen_sentence for 1..5;

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In reply to Re: Perl can do it, take 1 (sentence generation) by eric256
in thread Perl can do it, take 1 (sentence generation) by spurperl

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