Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing natural language analytics queries are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining a natural language query comprising an analytics function; applying domain reasoning using a predefined grammar for a plurality of different predefined categories of analytics functions to assign the analytics function of the natural language query into a given analytics function category; identifying predefined arguments and a predefined sequence of actions associated with the given analytics function category; instantiating the analytics function using the predefined arguments and the predefined sequence of actions; interpreting the instantiated analytics function in the context of a domain ontology to generate a target executable query to implement the instantiated analytics function; and executing the predefined sequence of actions for the given analytics function class on a result of the target executable query to obtain an answer to the natural language query.