Decompose compound sentence to simple sentences

Question

I am looking for a way to decompose the compound sentence to simple sentences in stanford nlp.
For ex: Input: The manager went home and committed suicide.
Output: The manager went home. He committed suicide.

Answer 1

If you are lucky and Stanford parser works correctly on your sentence, you can just decompose the parse tree:

(ROOT
  (S
    (S
      (NP (PRP I))
      (VP (VBP am)
        (NP (NNP John))))
    (CC and)
    (S
      (NP (PRP I))
      (VP (VBP am)
        (NP (DT an) (NN engineer))))
    (. .))) 

As you can see, there are 2 S nodes deriving from ROOT-S node. Another way of saying it: Take only the S nodes that don't have S children.