uhh sentences are fun. no plural at all so far tho

main.lua

@@ -1,12 +1,142 @@
+-- welcome to code hell :3
+
 require "quick-terminal-customization"
+require "strings"
+
+-- lets get the words 
+words = dofile("heonian-content/words.lua")
+
+-- lets slice up the multiple types a word can be into lists 
+ListNouns = {}
+ListModifiers = {}
+ListVerbs = {}
+ListMarkers = {}
+ListInterrogativePronouns = {}
+ListPersonalPronouns = {}
+
+for _, v in pairs(words) do -- v 1 = word /  v 3 = type / v 2 = meaning.
+	v[1] = find_n_replace(v[1], "[.]","'")
+	v[1] = minimum_apostrophes(v[1])
+	if v[1] == "re" or v[1] == "ba" or v[1] == "i'ma" then
+		table.insert(ListPersonalPronouns, {v[1], v[3], v[2]})
+	end
+
+	if string.find(v[3],"pronoun") then
+		table.insert(ListInterrogativePronouns, {v[1], v[3], v[2]})
+		--print("pronoun")
+	elseif string.find(v[3],"noun") then
+		table.insert(ListNouns, {v[1], v[3], v[2]})
+		--print("noun")
+	end
+	
+	if string.find(v[3],"verb") then
+		table.insert(ListVerbs, {v[1], v[3], v[2]})
+		--print("verb")
+	end
+	
+	if string.find(v[3],"modifier") then
+		table.insert(ListModifiers, {v[1], v[3], v[2]})
+		--print("modifier")
+	end
+	
+	if string.find(v[3],"marker") then
+		table.insert(ListMarkers, {v[1], v[3], v[2]})
+		--print("modifier")
+	end
+end
+
+function SentenceConstruct()
+	local sentence = ""
+	local r = 0
+	local formal = false
+	-- formal or not?
+	local r = math.random(4)
+	if r == 1 then
+		formal = true
+	end
+	-- lets get subject
+	-- 80% pronoun
+	-- 20% noun
+	local subject = ""
+	local subject_unmodified = ""
+	r = math.random(10)
+	if  r < 3 then
+		subject = ListNouns[math.random(#ListNouns)][1]
+	else
+		subject = ListPersonalPronouns[math.random(#ListPersonalPronouns)][1]
+		if formal then
+			subject = subject .. "lfur"
+		end
+		subject_unmodified = subject
+	end
+	
+	-- lets modify subject 30% of times
+	r = math.random(10)
+	if  r < 4 then
+		subject = ListModifiers[math.random(#ListModifiers)][1] .. " ".. subject
+	end
+		
+	sentence = sentence .. subject .. " chu"
+	
+	-- objects?
+	-- lets refer to the something 30% of the time
+	r = math.random(10)
+	if r < 4 then 
+		local rr = math.random(3)
+		if  subject_unmodified and rr > 1 then -- refer to subject 
+			sentence = sentence .. " " .. subject_unmodified .. "la " .. ListNouns[math.random(#ListNouns)][1]
+		else	-- lets make up
+			sentence = sentence .. " " .. ListPersonalPronouns[math.random(#ListPersonalPronouns)][1]
+			print(sentence)
+			if formal then
+				sentence = sentence .. "lfur"
+			end
+			sentence = sentence .. "la " .. ListNouns[math.random(#ListNouns)][1]
+		end
+	elseif r < 8 then 
+		sentence = sentence .. " " ..  ListNouns[math.random(#ListNouns)][1]
+		sentence = sentence .. " " ..  ListMarkers[math.random(#ListMarkers)][1]
+	end
+	
+	-- verb	
+	local verb = ListVerbs[math.random(#ListVerbs)][1]
+	-- lets conjugate
+	-- 5% infinitive
+	-- 30% past
+	-- 65% present
+	print(verb)
+	r = math.random(20)
+	if r == 1 then -- infinitive
+	elseif r < 7 then -- past
+		if formal then
+			verb = string.sub(verb,1,#verb-1) .. "ome"
+		else
+			verb = string.sub(verb,1,#verb-2) .. "'me"
+		end
+	else -- present
+		if formal then
+			verb = string.sub(verb,1,#verb-1) .. "a'nya"
+		else
+			verb = string.sub(verb,1,#verb-2) .. "'nya"
+		end
+	end
+	-- 20% modify verb
+	r = math.random(5)
+	if r == 1 then
+		verb = ListModifiers[math.random(#ListModifiers)][1] .. " ".. verb
+	end
+	sentence = sentence .. " " .. verb
+	
+	return sentence
+end
 
 function LoopStart()
 	os.execute("clear")
 	print(string.color(TERMINAL_COLOR.HighYellow,"-- HEONIAN LANGUAGE EXERCISES (HLE) --"))
 end
 
-
 while 1 do
 	LoopStart()
+	print(SentenceConstruct())
 	io.read()
 end

strings.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+function string.split(str, find, tbl)
+	split = tbl or {}
+	local p = 0
+	local continue = true
+	while continue do
+		word = string.sub(str,p,string.find(str,find,p+1,-1))
+		table.insert(split,word)
+		if string.find(str,find,p) then
+			str = string.sub(str,p)
+			p = string.find(str,find,p)  
+			continue = true
+			p = p + 1
+		else
+			continue = false
+		end
+	end
+	return split
+end
+
+function strip_symbols(str)
+	local symbol_table = "'~()!?:></.,\t…"
+	for i=1, #symbol_table do
+		while string.find(str, "%"..string.sub(symbol_table,i,i)) do
+			str = string.gsub(str, "%"..string.sub(symbol_table,i,i),"")
+		end
+	end
+	return str
+end
+
+
+function find_n_replace(str, find,repl, caution)
+	if string.find(str, find) then
+		if caution then 
+			if not string.find(str, caution, string.find(str, find)+string.len(find)-string.len(caution)) then -- sometimes you want to avoid certain false positives
+				str = string.gsub(str,find, repl)
+			end
+		else
+			str = string.gsub(str,find, repl)
+		end
+	end
+	return str
+end
+
+function minimum_apostrophes(str)
+	local restr = ""
+	for i = 1, #str do
+		if string.sub(str,i,i) == "'" then -- only makes sense to separate vowels from vowels
+			if string.find(string.sub(str,i-1,i-1),"[aeiou]") then
+				if string.find(string.sub(str,i+1,i+1),"[aeiou]") then
+					restr = restr .. string.sub(str,i,i)
+				end
+			else -- only consontant meaningful of checking is n'y opposed to ny
+				if string.find(string.sub(str,i-1,i-1),"[n]") 
+				and string.find(string.sub(str,i+1,i+1),"[y]") then
+					restr = restr .. string.sub(str,i,i)
+				end
+			end 	
+		else
+			restr = restr .. string.sub(str,i,i)
+		end
+	end	
+	return restr
+end