Grammar is another partial filter. So in this case, ‘Mary hit John’ might mean that Mary hit or bumped into John, but it would be harder for it to mean that John bumped into Mary because of the word order imposed by the grammar, which acts as a (weak) filter on the possible meanings of the sentence. Whenever the grammatical filter is less fine-meshed, as in a G1 language, the role of culture in aiding the meaning becomes even greater,
