Parsing string for "<verb> <noun>"

[Daniel da Silva]

Hi,

I have come across a task where I would like to scan a short 20-80
character line of text for instances of "<verb> <noun>". Ideally
<verb> could be of any tense.

I know quite a bit of programming and computer science, but
computational linguistics is relatively new to me. If anyone can point
me in the right direction, I would be very thankful!

Cheers,

Daniel