A pashto inflection, verb conjugation, and phrase-generation engine, as well as functions and components for modifying and displaying Pashto text.
This library uses a 3-step process to generate gramattically correct Pashto phrases. This 3-step process corresponds directly to Chomsky's tripartrite structure for tranformational generative grammars.
| Pashto Inflector Function | Chomskian Grammar Level | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Assemble the phrase tree | Phrase Structure Rules |
| 2. | Inflect the words in tree | Morphophonemic Rules |
| 3. | Arrange the inflected words in order | Transformational Rules |
Phrase Structure Rules
An abstract syntax tree is created with the various parts of a phrase represented as dictionary entries of the words as well as information about gender, number, and tense, etc. These are arranged in typed structures that allow for arranging NP and APs into verbal or equative phrases.
Morphophonemic Rules
The dictionary entries for the words are inflected and conjugated as necessary.
Transformational Rules
The inflected words are arranged into possible phrases with various options for dropping or encliticizing pronouns, and placing the negation particle in the correct place(s).
- The full process of phrase building
This is published on a private NPM proxy registry as two libraries:
- @lingdocs/inflect
/src/lib- The core inflection engine with grammatical information and tools for processing LingDocs dictionary entries and Pashto text.
- Can be used with Node 16, as CommonJS
- @lingdocs/ps-react
/src/components- @lingdocs/inflect plus react components for displaying Pashto text, phrase engine UI etc.
- Only available as an ES6 Module
@lingdocs/pashto-inflector is deprecated. Use @lingdocs/inflect or @lingdocs/ps-react instead.
The Pashto Verb Explorer website can be used to view and play with the verb conjugations and various components.
cd src/components
yarn install
cd ../lib
yarn install
cd ../..
yarn install
yarn start
⚠ Don't use yarn build. Use one of the commands below: ⚠
To build the Pashto Verb Explorer website:
yarn build-website
This outputs a site at /build
To build the @lingdocs/inflet and @lingdocs/ps-react libraries ready for publishing to NPM:
yarn build-library