Grm_def 4grm "Sven Wachsmuth & Gernot A. Fink" - "ESMERALDA-Manual" This is an example grammar describing a time constituent: $TIME : $DAY $TIME_CIRCA $TIME_PRECISE ; $DAY : today ; $TIME_CIRCA : in the morning | ; $TIME_PRECISE : at $TIME_HOUR oclock | at $TIME_HOUR point $TIME_MIN | ; $TIME_HOUR : one | two | three ; $TIME_MIN : zero | fifteen | thirty ; $$S : $TIME ; Some word sequences defined by the grammar are: today in the morning today in the morning at three oclock today at one point thirty today