Conceptual background

Modelling syntax

Any computational analysis of natural-language syntax must choose a syntactic model suited to its purpose. These pages summarize the goals of arsgrammatica, and how its model compares with other models of natural-language syntax.

• Goals of arsgrammatica
• Comparison with the Universal Dependency scheme
• Comparison with the Agent-Action-Target model

Implementation of the arsgrammatica model

The arsgrammatica package is based on three classes, representing the tokenization of a Latin passage, the syntactic anchor points of verbal expressions, and the graph of syntactic relations.

• Tokenization of a passage (the Token class)
• AAT anchor points: verbal units (the VerbalExpression class)
• Graph of syntactic relations (the TokenAnalysis class)

Examples of analyses

Four sentences from arsgrammatica’s training set illustrate every recognized syntactic relation.