Inheritance networks are becoming more and more popular among Natural Language Processing community. This is not only because of a long tradition in the network formations in NLP but also because of the insights which inheritance technology can take into language processing. However, most of the benefits of inheritance networks have been looked for at the level of lexicon organization and morphological processing, grammar definition and syntactic processing and partly at the level of semantic interpretation [CL, 1992]. Obviously, there is no reason why inheritance networks are to be kept apart from the pragmatic sphere. The paper describes an algorithm with direct relevance to the pragmatic interpretation of natural language based on world knowledge represented by means of multiple inheritance semantic networks.
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