Technical Notes

The following word pattern shows how Jabberwocky strings words together to form sentences and paragraphs. Items enclosed in brackets are optional and may or may not appear. An ‘*’ indicates repetition a random number of times (which may be zero). A ‘|’ indicates an either/or option.


<paragraph> ::= <TAB><sentence>.[ <sentence>.]*<RETURN>
<sentence> ::= <clause>[, <subsidiary_clause>]*
<subsidiary_clause> ::= <conjunction><clause>
<clause> ::= <noun_phrase><transitive_verbphrase><noun_phrase> |
                  <noun_phrase><intransitive_verbphrase>
<noun_phrase> ::= <article>[<adjective_phrase>]<noun_word> |
                            <proper_noun>
<noun_word> :: = <noun> | <plural_noun>
<plural_noun> ::= <noun> followed by ‘s’ or ‘es’ as appropriate
<adjective_phrase> ::= [<qualifier>]<adjective>
<transitive_verbphrase> ::= [<adverb_phrase>]<transitive_verb>
<intransitive_verbphrase> ::= <intransitive_verb>[adverb_phrase]
<adverb_phrase> ::= [<qualifier>]<adverb>


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