A natural language processing system identifies command elements in a text natural language command and, for each command element, accesses a playlist access matrix and identifies any playlist pointer pairs associated therein with that command element. The natural language processing system then identifies whether a first playlist pointer element in any of those playlist pointer pairs indicates a current playlist pointer best match and, if so, updates a playlist entry identifier with a second playlist pointer element in the playlist pointer pair that includes that first playlist pointer element. When the natural language processing system determines that all of the command elements have been considered, it uses the playlist entry identifier to identify a computing language command in a command playlist, and executes the computing language command on a target element in the text natural language command based on an action element in the text natural language command.