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fanzygerna

fanzygerna is a grammar for Lojban incorporating many experimental changes. Try it!

Characteristics

Many features are copied from the exp and beta variants of ilmentufa, zantufa, or zasni gerna. Like in tersmu, the morphology is extracted into a separate PEG.

fanzygerna is a cmevla-brivla-merging, connective-unifying (including VUhU), tag-unifying, cekitau-optional grammar.

Unique to fanzygerna

• Grammar of descriptions: the cmavo {su'oi}, {ro'oi}, {no'oi}, {ru'oi} are moved to selmaho LE. The description grammar is changed such that {LE KOhA GOhA KU} is no longer allowed, and {LE KOhA KU} is allowed instead. This is the original motivation for fanzygerna, and also the reason for its name.
• Expansion of connectives: selmaho NAhE, SE, LE, LI, LOhOI, and afterthought connectives themselves, can be connected (the first two in forethought only).
• The morphology has a unified brivla rule, and includes only those rafsi rules needed to implement slinkuhi test. Slinkuhi words themselves are allowed after a pause.
• Cmavo shaped like members of selmaho UI are automatically recognized as such, unless they explicitly belong to another selmaho.
• Implementation detail: rule templates are used to shorten repetitive rules, as used in eaburns's Toaq parser/transformer.

Notably absent

• SA and LOhAI-LEhAI
• KE-BO-termsets, because replacing CEhE with BO is a messy undertaking
• I-JA inside subsentences, out of personal preference; JA-I and TUhE are supported, however
• Unary afterthought JA, because it may be in conflict with JACU
• GA or other gek styles as tanru connectives (guheks have to stay anyway for forethought connection of connectives and tags)
• NOI on selbri
• digit-string and lerfu-string split

Requirements

For generating a PEG.js grammar engine from its PEG grammar file, you need to have Node.js installed on your machine. PEG.js itself (slightly modified to work around our own bugs) is already included in this repo.

Building a parser

After having entered the gentufa directory, run the following commands:

node pegjs_conv.js fanzatufa-stura.peg
node build-camxes.js fanzatufa-morfo.js.peg
node build-camxes.js fanzatufa-stura.pegjs

Now, the grammar engines should have been created. Run node fanzatufa-cmdline.js 'ti mo' or load glosser/glosser.htm to try it out. You can also run the IRC bot at irc/fanza-bot.js after installing the irc package from npm.

Other parsers

In the morfologi branch of this repository, there are five unmaintained parsers:

• spagetufa, a sort of ancestor to fanzygerna, but configurable to a fault and including some more radically experimental features,
• morfopoho, a direct ancestor to the morphology grammar of fanzygerna,
• two separate attempts at parsing gua\spi, neither complete
• a version of Randall Holmes's Loglan parser modified to show terminator elision