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| author | aarne <aarne@cs.chalmers.se> | 2008-06-25 16:54:35 +0000 |
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| committer | aarne <aarne@cs.chalmers.se> | 2008-06-25 16:54:35 +0000 |
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diff --git a/examples/letter/letter.Abs.gf b/examples/letter/letter.Abs.gf deleted file mode 100644 index 48be93a33..000000000 --- a/examples/letter/letter.Abs.gf +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ ---1 An Abstract Syntax for Business and Love Letters --- --- This file defines the abstract syntax of a grammar set whose concrete syntax --- has so far been written to five languages: English, Finnish, French, Russian, --- and Swedish. --- --- The main category of the grammar is $Letter$. The other categories are --- parts of the letter. - -flags startcat=Letter ; - -cat - Letter ; - Recipient ; Author ; - Message ; - Heading ; Ending ; - Mode ; Sentence ; NounPhrase ; Position ; - --- There is just one top-level letter structure. - -fun - MkLetter : Heading -> Message -> Ending -> Letter ; - --- The heading consists of a greeting of the recipient. The $JustHello$ --- function will actually suppress the name (and title) of the recipient, --- but the $Recipient$ argument keeps track of the gender and number. - - DearRec : Recipient -> Heading ; - PlainRec : Recipient -> Heading ; - HelloRec : Recipient -> Heading ; - JustHello : Recipient -> Heading ; - --- A message is a sentence with of without a *mode*, which is either --- regret or honour. - - ModeSent : Mode -> Sentence -> Message ; - PlainSent : Sentence -> Message ; - - Honour, Regret : Mode ; - --- The ending is either formal or informal. It does not currently depend on --- the heading: making it so would eliminate formality mismatches between --- the heading and the ending. - - FormalEnding : Author -> Ending ; - InformalEnding : Author -> Ending ; - --- The recipient is either a colleague, colleagues, or darling. --- It can also be a named person. The gender distinction is made --- because there are things in the body of the letter that depend on it. - - ColleagueHe, ColleagueShe : Recipient ; - ColleaguesHe, ColleaguesShe : Recipient ; - DarlingHe, DarlingShe : Recipient ; - - NameHe, NameShe : String -> Recipient ; - --- For the author, there is likewise a fixed set of titles, plus the named author. --- Gender distinctions could be useful even here, for the same reason as with --- $Recipient$. Notice that the rendering of $Spouse$ will depend on the --- gender of the recipient. - - President, Mother, Spouse, Dean : Author ; - Name : String -> Author ; - --- As for the message body, no much choice is yet available: one can say that --- the recipient is promoted to some position, that someone has gone bankrupt, --- or that the author loves the recipient. - - BePromoted : Position -> Sentence ; - GoBankrupt : NounPhrase -> Sentence ; - ILoveYou : Sentence ; - - Competitor : NounPhrase ; - Company : NounPhrase ; - OurCustomers : NounPhrase ; - - Senior : Position ; - ProjectManager : Position ; - |
