Taking common rules of English into account and trying to simplify the structure of a sentence is not really something that can be "brute-forced" though. Certain words have an explicit usage, others have different uses that must be negotiated using the context in which it appears, a task I think is AI in nature.

I'm not saying it's impossible though. You could certainly scan a text for sentences that fit a certain predetermined structure for parsing, but it seems to me that making full use of random texts will require some kind of intelligence. That said, I'm also very interested on any other input on the topic.