smyth-grammar

Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges (New York: American Book Company, 1920 — public domain). PROSE-witness t0 source repo for Greek morphology and syntax, the sibling of allen-greenough-grammar (Latin) and gesenius-kautzsch-grammar (Hebrew) in the distributional-grammar programme: one row per numbered Smyth paragraph (§1–§3048, complete, plus the 213 "D"-suffixed dialect paragraphs), Greek examples in polytonic Unicode, Smyth's own cross-references as bare section numbers.

evidence_status=grammar-author-claim — every row is Smyth's own 1920 grammatical analysis, not an independently verified linguistic fact.

License and Attribution

Content	License	Source
Underlying grammar text (1920)	Public Domain (US, pre-1929 publication)	Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, American Book Co., 1920
Digitization lineage	Perseus Project, Tufts University (TEI XML, text 1999.04.0007, NEH-funded; prepared under Lisa Cerrato, William Merrill, Elli Mylonas, David Smith; principal Gregory Crane) → Alpheios Project alpheios-project/grammar-smyth src/smyth_eng_u.xml @ d7796df9 (2020-05-13; Unicode Greek, "with corrections, formatting and indexes added by Alpheios"; README asserts CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US over the encoding)	https://github.com/alpheios-project/grammar-smyth
Topic index (topic_index)	Alpheios' own 86-row navigation index (index/alph-index-smyth), resolved here to Smyth's headings/section numbers	same

Ruling on record (owner, 2026-08-23): this repo ships Smyth's PD prose, section numbering and Greek examples — a faithful reproduction of a public-domain work — and is therefore carded public-domain with attribution (doctrine §2.5: "pre-1929 imprint or faithful PD reproduction → k: public-domain, attribution only"). The digitizers' own contributions (TEI markup, Beta Code transliteration, <ref> target ids, Alpheios indexes and formatting) are not redistributed: the builder flattens the markup to plain text, converts Beta Code back to Unicode Greek, and carries only Smyth's own section numbers and the encoders' LSJ entry keys as join keys. Owner follow-up ruling 2026-08-23: the Alpheios index and corrections may be leveraged — a navigation index over a PD text is factual. We gratefully acknowledge the Perseus Project / Tufts University and the Alpheios Project for the digitization and corrections. (The neelsmith/smyth Beta Code derivative was evaluated first and set aside: it lacks the verb appendix and carries Greek in untagged spans — see VERIFY.md.) This supersedes the "smyth-grammar BLOCKED" line of grammar/plans/DISTRIBUTIONAL_GRAMMAR_PLAN.v2.md §2/§8.

Configs

sections (3,261 rows)

column	meaning
section_id	Smyth's paragraph number as printed ("792", "3D", "30 D. 1") — the join key
section_num	integer part of section_id
is_dialect_note	true for the 213 "D" (dialect) paragraphs
section_label	display form § N
outline_part / outline_chapter / outline_section / outline_subsection / outline_subsub	Smyth's outline hierarchy (titles; prefixed so they are never read as Bible addresses)
head	paragraph heading where the source has one
prose_text	the paragraph's full text, Greek in Unicode; nested dialect paragraphs excluded (they are their own rows)
greek_examples	JSON list of the Greek examples in the paragraph, in order
glosses	JSON list of the English glosses that follow Greek examples
cross_refs	JSON list of bare section numbers Smyth cross-references
citations	JSON list of classical citations (author/work/locus strings)
parent_section_id	for nested (dialect) paragraphs, the enclosing paragraph
source_url, source_sha256, doc_order	provenance (pinned source commit + file sha) and document order

toc (665 rows)

Smyth's outline: toc_order, level (part/chapter/section/subsection/subsub), n, title, ancestor outline_* titles, source_url.

verb_list (761 rows)

Smyth's Appendix "List of Verbs" (Part V): lemma, poetic_only (Smyth's * = Epic/poetic), letter_page, entry_text (full entry), principal_parts (the forms Smyth sets in bold), greek_forms, glosses, cross_refs, lsj_entry_key (Perseus LSJ entry key in Beta Code, 761/761 — join surface to the estate's LSJ), provenance.

topic_index (86 rows)

Alpheios' topic keys (alph-case-dative, alph-declension-1st, …) resolved to resolved_heading + first_section_id (81/86 resolve; 5 point at pages without a Smyth heading and carry the raw anchor only).

Build

huggingface/candidates/build/smyth-grammar/build.py — deterministic from the cached TEI (cache/smyth_eng_u.xml, sha256 3d5ba15f…) and index CSV; --verify rebuilds and diffs every column. Text is NFC-normalised; fullwidth parentheses (U+FF08/FF09, a Perseus artifact) are normalised to ASCII.