ASD-Networks.com: ASD Grammars

Augmented Syntax Diagrams (ASD) are used to denote English grammar rules graphically as an alternative to rules expressed as strings. They are represented as networks of directed graphs, mostly non-cyclic, which can be edited, customized and displayed with an ASDEditor. They can contain cycles to express repetition of phrase structures.

Best to use ASDEditor to load and view a grammar or to create a new one. However, the grammar files need to be expressed in a software readable format. Here is a small sample of the text format use to represent the Cardinal grammar graphically by the ASDEditor and for parsing with ASDParser:

$$ (
  (1 nil CARDINAL 'valueOfV' '' 586 200)
  (2 nil CARDINAL 'valueOfVTimesM' '' 342 388)
))
 
(, (
  (1 nil ((CARDINAL 2 401 321) (and 1 368 294)) (CARDINAL) '' 319 287)
))
 
(- (
  (1 nil ((UNIT 2 565 143)) (UNIT) '' 535 116)
))
 
(and (
  (1 nil ((CARDINAL 2 455 321)) (CARDINAL) '' 409 287)
))
 
(CARDINAL (
  (1 (CARDINAL) ((MULTIPLIER 1 157 349)) (MULTIPLIER) 'setVNodeValue' 57 342)
  (2 nil CARDINAL 'valueOfVTimesMPlusV2' 'cardinal_2_action' 474 342)
))
 
(DECADE (
  (1 (CARDINAL) ((UNIT 2 542 163) ($$ 1 542 185) (- 1 517 143)) (UNIT) 'setVNodeValue' 447 156)
))
 
(eight (
  (1 (UNIT CARDINAL) UNIT '8' '' 10 220)
))
 
(eighteen (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL '18' '' 123 244)
))
 
(eighty (
  (1 (DECADE CARDINAL) DECADE '80' '' 300 179)
))
 
(eleven (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL '11' '' 128 37)
))
 
(fifteen (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL '15' '' 130 156)
))
 
(fifty (
  (1 (DECADE CARDINAL) DECADE '50' '' 299 94)
))
 
(five (
  (1 (UNIT CARDINAL) UNIT '5' '' 17 126)
))
 
(forty (
  (1 (DECADE CARDINAL) DECADE '40' '' 295 65)
))
 
(four (
  (1 (UNIT CARDINAL) UNIT '4' '' 15 97)
))
 
(fourteen (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL '14' '' 122 127)
))
 
(hundred (
  (1 (MULTIPLIER) MULTIPLIER '100' '' 439 7)
))
 
(million (
  (1 (MULTIPLIER) MULTIPLIER '1000000' '' 440 64)
))
 
(MULTIPLIER (
  (1 nil ((and 1 338 321) (CARDINAL 2 371 349) ($$ 2 305 372) (, 1 293 321)) (CARDINAL) 'multiplier_1_action' 194 342)
))
 
(nine (
  (1 (UNIT CARDINAL) UNIT '9' '' 12 253)
))
 
(nineteen (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL '19' '' 124 271)
))
 
(ninety (
  (1 (DECADE CARDINAL) DECADE '90' '' 300 207)
))
 
(one (
  (1 (UNIT CARDINAL) UNIT '1' '' 13 5)
))
 
(seven (
  (1 (UNIT CARDINAL) UNIT '7' '' 10 187)
))
 
(seventeen (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL '17' '' 114 213)
))
 
(seventy (
  (1 (DECADE CARDINAL) DECADE '70' '' 299 151)
))
 
(six (
  (1 (UNIT CARDINAL) UNIT '6' '' 20 155)
))
 
(sixteen (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL '16' '' 129 186)
))
 
(sixty (
  (1 (DECADE CARDINAL) DECADE '60' '' 300 122)
))
 
(ten (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL '10' '' 127 7)
))
 
(thirteen (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL '13' '' 121 96)
))
 
(thirty (
  (1 (DECADE CARDINAL) DECADE '30' '' 294 35)
))
 
(thousand (
  (1 (MULTIPLIER) MULTIPLIER '1000' '' 439 34)
))
 
(three (
  (1 (UNIT CARDINAL) UNIT '3' '' 8 65)
))
 
(twelve (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL '12' '' 128 67)
))
 
(twenty (
  (1 (DECADE CARDINAL) DECADE '20' '' 293 6)
))
 
(two (
  (1 (UNIT CARDINAL) UNIT '2' '' 14 36)
))
 
(UNIT (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL 'nodeValue' '' 450 221)
  (2 nil CARDINAL 'valueOfV' 'unit_2_action' 586 156)
))
 
(UNKNOWN (
  (1 (UNKNOWNWORD CARDINAL) UNKNOWNWORD '' '' 30 434)
))
 
(UNKNOWNWORD (
  (1 (CARDINAL) CARDINAL 'valueOfV' 'UNKNOWNCARDINAL_action' 252 434)
))

All ASD grammar modules created by Prof. Mason can be downloaded from the ASD Project Subversion server. The repository checkout command is:

As previously mentioned, a Subversion client like TortoiseSvn can be easily installed on most Windows OS computers.