zenlish_grammar.rb in zenlish-0.1.01

- old
+ new
@@ -10,20 +10,31 @@
   add_terminals(*$ZenlishLexicon.terminals)
   # add_terminals('Period')
 
   rule 'language' => 'sentence'
   rule 'sentence' => 'simple_sentence'
-  rule 'simple_sentence' => 'declarative_simple_sentence'
-  rule 'declarative_simple_sentence' => 'noun_phrase verb_phrase Period'
-  rule 'noun_phrase' => 'noun'
-  rule 'noun' => 'ProperNoun'
-  rule 'noun' => 'CommonNoun'
-  rule 'verb_phrase' => 'lexical_verb complement'
+  rule 'simple_sentence' => 'declarative_simple_sentence Period'
+  rule 'declarative_simple_sentence' => 'noun_phrase verb_phrase'
+  rule 'noun_phrase' => 'noun_bar'
+  rule 'noun_phrase' => 'determiner noun_bar'
+  rule 'noun_phrase' => 'numeral noun_bar'  
+  rule 'noun_phrase' => 'determiner numeral noun_bar'
+  rule 'noun_phrase' => 'ProperNoun' 
+  rule 'noun_phrase' => 'IndefinitePronoun'  
+  rule 'noun_bar' => 'CommonNoun'
+  rule 'noun_bar' => 'Adjective CommonNoun'
+  rule 'noun_bar' => 'Adjective CommonNoun comparative_clause'  
+  rule 'determiner' => 'DemonstrativeDeterminer'
+  rule 'determiner' => 'DefiniteArticle'
+  rule 'verb_phrase' => 'lexical_verb'
+  rule 'verb_phrase' => 'lexical_verb noun_phrase'
   rule 'lexical_verb' => 'IrregularVerb'
-  rule 'complement' => 'ProperNoun'
-  rule 'complement' => 'IndefinitePronoun'
-  rule 'complement' => 'DemonstrativeDeterminer noun'
-  rule 'complement' => 'DefiniteArticle Adjective CommonNoun'
+  rule 'numeral' => 'Cardinal'
+  rule 'comparative_clause' => 'comparative_start noun_phrase verb_phrase'
+  rule 'comparative_start' => 'ComparativeParticle'
 end
+
+# CGE p. 354 The order of determiners: quantifier > article or demonstrative 
+# or possessive > numeral > head
 
 # And now build the grammar...
 ZenlishGrammar = builder.grammar