diff --git a/treebanks/susanne/SusanneFormat.hs b/treebanks/susanne/SusanneFormat.hs
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+module SusanneFormat(Tag,Id,Word,Lemma,ParseTree(..),readTreebank) where
+
+import Data.Char
+
+type Tag   = String
+type Id    = String
+type Word  = String
+type Lemma = String
+
+data ParseTree
+ = Phrase Tag [ParseTree]
+ | Word   Id Tag Word Lemma
+
+data ParseTreePos
+ = Root
+ | At ParseTreePos Tag [ParseTree]
+
+instance Show ParseTree where
+  show (Phrase tag ts)  = "["++tag++" "++unwords (map show ts)++"]"
+  show (Word _ tag w _) = "["++tag++" "++w++"]"
+
+readTreebank ls = readLines Root (map words ls)
+
+readLines p []                        = []
+readLines p ([id,_,tag,w,l,parse]:ls) =
+  readParse p (Word id tag w l) parse ls
+
+readParse p    w []       ls = readLines p ls
+readParse p    w ('[':cs) ls =
+  case break (not . isTagChar) cs of
+    (tag,cs) -> readParse (At p tag []) w cs ls
+readParse (At p tag ts) w ('.':cs) ls =
+  readParse (At p tag (w:ts)) w cs ls
+readParse (At p tag ts) w cs ls =
+  case break (not . isTagChar) cs of
+    (tag,']':cs) -> let t = Phrase tag (reverse ts)
+                    in case p of
+                         Root        -> t : readLines p ls
+                         At p tag ts -> readParse (At p tag (t:ts)) w cs ls
+    _            -> error cs
+
+isTagChar c =
+  isLetter c || isDigit c || elem c ":&+-%@=?\"*!"
diff --git a/treebanks/susanne/convert.hs b/treebanks/susanne/convert.hs
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+import System.Directory
+import System.FilePath
+import Data.List
+
+import SusanneFormat
+
+main = do
+  fs <- getDirectoryContents "data"
+  txts <- (mapM (\f -> readFile ("data" </> f)) . filter ((/= ".") . take 1)) (sort fs)
+  let ts = filter (not . isBreak) (readTreebank (lines (concat txts)))
+  writeFile "text" (unlines (map show ts))
+
+isBreak (Phrase "Oh" [Word _ "YB" "<minbrk>" _]) = True
+isBreak _                                        = False