# PAWS (Parser and Writer for Syntax)

> The Parser and Writer for Syntax (PAWS) has two purposes. The Writer produces about a 100 page long rough draft of a grammar of the syntax of your language, based on the answers to the questions in each section of PAWS. The Parser produces all the files needed for using the PC-PATR syntactic parser for parsing and disambiguation within FieldWorks Language Explorer or CARLA Studio. For both the Writer and the Parser, we expect PAWS to cover about 80% of what a language needs.

- **Slug:** `paws-parser-and-writer-for-syntax`
- **Organization:** SIL
- **Website:** https://software.sil.org/paws/
- **HTML page:** https://www.tools.bible/tools/paws-parser-and-writer-for-syntax
- **Markdown page:** https://www.tools.bible/tools/paws-parser-and-writer-for-syntax.md

## Classification

- **Translation stages:** Language Development
- **Medium:** Oral, Written
- **Pricing:** Free (Unrestricted)
- **Release status:** Full
- **Integrations:** FieldWorks
- **Localization:** English, French, Spanish
- **Translation type:** Any
- **License:** LGPL
- Developer expertise needed
- Linguistic expertise needed
- Offline capable

## Description

The Writer tool produces a  draft of the grammar. The Parser can be  used to Parse words within  FLEx.

PAWS is expected to cover about 80% of what a language grammar needs.

Runs on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

## Testimonials

> Since technical writing is by far the hardest skill to master in linguistic research, ... [the authors of PAWS] have done us the favor of putting most of their knowledge of what languages are like into a computer program that guides the user through a discovery process step by step.
>
> — Tom Willett, SIL

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