If you write a parser as a Ruby object that consumes its method_missing arguments, I guess you could just do full blown NLP or define any context-free grammar as a DSL?
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Please, someone tell me not to do this, I don't have the handwidth to spare.
An object with a BNF grammar and an evaluation function, which feeds its method_missing to a shift/reduce parser and returns itself, except when the full input is consumed, when it passes the resulting tree to the evaluation function, and returns the result.
You could probably define a function which within its block argumentt overrides the kernel method_missing, so sentences don't need a set starting word.
And maybe you could use Ruby's method call or block syntax to hack parentheses or curly braces into your DSL?