English and Esperanto

Esperantistoj, b.v. vidu Peto al esperantistoj.

Intros to Esperanto

Perhaps http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Rules_of_Esperanto_grammar (or http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/rules.html) is a good overview.

And the affixes: http://esperanto.davidgsimpson.com/eo-affixes.html (short) http://steve-and-pattie.com/esperantujo/grparafx.html (longer)

Tenses are exlained in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_grammar#Verbs

Wordlists

http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakefield/translations/engesp.html

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/d/dm/dmdictionary/EngEsp.txt

Trivial (standalone lemma types which is not changed during transfer)

en pattern	eo pattern	en	eo	status
adv	adv	after	poste	OK
adv.itg	adv.itg	how	kiel	OK
cnjadv	cnjadv	after	post kiam	OK
cnjcoo	cnjcoo	and	kaj	OK
cnjsub	cnjsub	that	ke	OK
ij	ij	goodbye	adiaŭ	OK
num.sg	num.sg	one	unu	OK
num.sp	num.sp	hundred	cent	OK
pr	pr	after	post	OK
preadv	preadv	any	tre	OK
prn.obj.p1.mf.pl	prn.obj.p1.mf.pl	us	nin	OK
prn.obj.p1.mf.sg	prn.obj.p1.mf.sg	me	min	OK
prn.obj.p2.mf.sp	prn.obj.p2.mf.sp	you	vin	OK
prn.obj.p3.f.sg	prn.obj.p3.f.sg	her	ŝin	OK
prn.obj.p3.mf.pl	prn.obj.p3.mf.pl	them	ilin	OK
prn.obj.p3.m.sg	prn.obj.p3.m.sg	him	lin	OK
prn.obj.p3.nt.sg	prn.obj.p3.nt.sg	it	ĝin	OK
prn.ref.p1.mf.pl	prn.ref.p1.mf.pl	ourselves	nin	needs <acc>
prn.ref.p1.mf.sg	prn.ref.p1.mf.sg	myself	#mi	needs <acc>
prn.ref.p2.mf.pl	prn.ref.p2.mf.pl	yourselves	#vi	needs <acc>
prn.ref.p2.mf.sg	prn.ref.p2.mf.sg	yourself	#vi	needs <acc>
prn.ref.p3.f.sg	prn.ref.p3.f.sg	herself	#si	needs <acc>
prn.ref.p3.mf.pl	prn.ref.p3.mf.pl	themselves	#si	needs <acc>
prn.ref.p3.m.sg	prn.ref.p3.m.sg	himself	#si	needs <acc>
prn.ref.p3.nt.sg	prn.ref.p3.nt.sg	itself	#si	needs <acc>
prn.subj.p1.mf.pl	prn.subj.p1.mf.pl	we	ni	OK
prn.subj.p1.mf.sg	prn.subj.p1.mf.sg	I	mi	OK
prn.subj.p2.mf.sp	prn.subj.p2.mf.sp	you	vi	OK
prn.subj.p3.f.sg	prn.subj.p3.f.sg	she	ŝi	OK
prn.subj.p3.mf.pl	prn.subj.p3.mf.pl	they	ili	OK
prn.subj.p3.m.sg	prn.subj.p3.m.sg	he	li	OK
prn.subj.p3.nt.sg	prn.subj.p3.nt.sg	it	ĝi	OK
rel.adv	rel.adv	where	kie	OK
rel.an.mf.sp	rel.an.mf.sp	which	#\<rel\>	OK
vaux.inf	vaux.inf	will	#\<vaux\>	OK
vaux.past	vaux.past	could	povis	OK
vblex.ger	vblex.ger	advertising	anoncanta	OK
vblex.imp	vblex.imp	affect	afekciu	OK
vblex.inf	vblex.inf	advertise	anonci	OK
vblex.past	vblex.past	advertised	anoncis	OK
vblex.pp	vblex.pp	advertised	anoncita	OK
vblex.pres	vblex.pres	advertise	anoncas	OK
vbser.ger	vbser.ger	being	estanta	OK
vbser.inf	vbser.inf	be	esti	OK
vbser.past	vbser.past	were	estis	OK
vbser.pp	vbser.pp	been	estita	OK
vbser.pres	vbser.pres	are	estas	OK

A note about accusative

The next kind of thing we should think about is the type of sentence part that goes like this:

'the man you saw' 'the man the girl saw'

I don't know if we have to change word order here - probably not - but the nominative and accusative are SNs 2 and 1 respectively.

But think about this:

'the man my brother became'

Adding accusative here is wrong, so what can we do about it? Not much. Maybe in this specific instance, sure, but generally, we can only take the common cases and hope for the best. There's been plenty of work into statistical parsing, subject identification, etc., but it's still not much better than picking the common cases, and hoping for the best.

This is why we always tell people to have their translations checked by a native speaker :)

Jacob TODO

<jacobn> Ok, Ill try the web doc translator more, find the systematics, report a bug and attach files etc.

See also

• English and Esperanto/Regression tests