Parsing Sanskrit sentences using Lexical Functional Grammar

While there are enormous efforts in the localized visuals in the web pages that comprises language specific to the region, language processing plays a vital role. This overrules the dominating `English-Only´ culture thereby generating more acceptability to the technology. The research and contribution to the language technology has been revolutionized with this concern. The Indian scenario has opened areas to bring the historical Sanskrit based manuscripts to be accommodated on the web to emphasis on its excellence and vastness. The contribution to the language through Sanskrit translators and processors will bring an insight to how the Indian languages root deeply towards their contribution to literature and technology. This paper intends to introduce LFG (Lexical Functional Grammar) for parsing Sanskrit texts. The formalism of LFG has evolved from the extensive computational, linguistic, and psycholinguistic research, and hereby provides a simple set of grammatical rules for describing the common properties of all human languages and the particular properties of individual languages. This paper provides a set of instructions for using the formulation of LFG rules to parse Sanskrit. This paper can be useful for linguists who are unfamiliar with the formalism of the grammar for any language and they will find it possible to interpret and compose all the rules and lexical constructs that are standards in LFG. In this paper we present successful parse of some simple sentences along with some unsuccessful parse of non-grammatical sentences. This verifies that the rules comply with the grammatical constructs of the language.