TipThe XAmple parser is the default computational parser in FieldWorks Language Explorer.
Your lexical entries and grammatical information define your current understanding of the overall word grammar of the language you are working on. The parser uses that information to produce analyses of words in Texts & Words.
The accuracy of the analyses produced by this parser directly reflects the quality and completeness of the information you have entered in the Lexicon and the Grammar areas. You can see a summary of that information in the Grammar Sketch.
From Lexicon, parsers use the following information (much of which is stored in Grammar):
Lexeme Form, Affix Allomorphs and Stem Allomorphs, including:
Grammatical Info, and any
environments, inflection classes, inflection features/Required Features, Stem Names and Exception "Features". However, the parser ignore these for entries with Is Abstract Form selected.
From Grammar, parsers use the following information:
Inflectional affixes in slots which are in affix template tables.
Allomorph order is very important for the parser, which works with the forms in this order: first allomorph, second allomorph, ..., nth allomorph, then lexeme form. You can move allomorphs to change their order. This is particularly important when environments are used to constrain the forms as each allomorph automatically inherits the negation of the environments of any preceding allomorphs.
For more information, on the Help menu, point to Resources, and then click Introduction to Parsing. Order of allomorphs within a lexical entry is discussed in sections 3 and 4.
The Introduction to Parsing document also discusses, for example, affix allomorphs conditioned by inflection features (section 3), and how morpheme types are significant to the parser (section 4).
For words that require the use of word-forming apostrophes, you must use the correct apostrophe. Glottal stops are similar.
The parser handles only one word at a time, so the Parse result field will not show "Successful" for phrases, such as idioms.
TipYou can make a rule available (Active) or unavailable to parsers.
See: Active field (Ad hoc Rules), Active field (Compound Rules), or Active field (Phonological Rules).
You can make an affix template table available (Active) or unavailable to parsers.
See: Active field (Affix Templates).