Hi,
I'm a newcomer to ANTLR and am trying to write a grammar to parse
controlled natural language. The idea is to parse sentences then convert
to RDF using Jena. A colleague has already written a version in Prolog so
I'm looking to do a Java version. My starting point is to write the
following grammar:
rule: cesentence;
cesentence: sentence FSTOP;
sentence: declarative;
declarative: simpleds name?;
simpleds: ('there is' existentialnp) |
(nounp verbp) |
('it is' ('true' | 'false' | 'unknown') 'that'
generalproposition);
existentialnp: ('a' | 'an') description;
description: noun namedecl? relativeclause?;
namedecl: ('named' name) |
variable |
('known as' name);
nounp: existentialnp |
referentialnp;
verbp: simplevp ('and' simplevp)*;
simplevp: (('has' | 'does not have') simplenp 'as'
functionalnoun);
verbcomp: simplenp;
simplenp: ('(' simplenp ')') |
existentialnp |
referentialnp;
referentialnp: ('the' noun (name | variable)) |
variable |
('the type' noun) |
('the' noun 'known as' name);
generalproposition: simpleds |
QUOTE;
relativeclause: ('that' verbp) |
('described as' QUOTE);
// CE Lexical categories
name: STRNG;
noun: 'person';
functionalnoun: 'brother';
variable: UCSTR;
// Terminators
FSTOP: '.';
UCSTR: ('A'..'Z' | '0'..'9')+; // String
with upper and digits
STRNG: (UCSTR | 'a'..'z')+; // String with
upper, lower and digits
SPACE: ' ';
QUOTE: '"' (STRNG | SPACE)* '"';
which was pretty straightforward. I then tested it using the interpreter
(Eclipse IDE plugin) on the following sentence:
there is a person named Fred.
but the parser falls over on the existentialnp rule. Any help appreciated.
Regards,
John
John Ibbotson PhD CEng FIET
Master Inventor
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