def create_instances(model, sent):
    """
    Convert a sentence into a list of instances.
    """
    sent_tokens = model._tokenizer.tokenize(sent)
    # Find all verbs in the input sentence
    pred_ids = [i for (i, t) in enumerate(sent_tokens)
                if t.pos_ == "VERB"]

    # Create instances
    instances = [{"sentence": sent_tokens,
                  "predicate_index": pred_id}
                 for pred_id in pred_ids]

    return instances