I should clarify: it parses a variant of EBNF. The specific syntax is 
explained at https://benknoble.github.io/loner/ 
and https://benknoble.github.io/loner/demo.html#syntax

On Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 8:50:48 PM UTC-4 D. Ben Knoble wrote:

> I haven't touched Clojure in a year or two, and I'm not familiar with 
> instaparse.
>
> I can say, from a terminology stand-point, that a grammar (such as one in 
> EBNF) can produce a parser, which then produces parse-trees of input 
> strings. So, perhaps you mean that you want parse-trees of strings in the 
> grammar of EBNF? It took me a few reads to come to this conclusion—the 
> expression "get a parse tree of the EBNF" threw me off.
>
> It seems likely that instaparse is producing a parser, and may throw away 
> the underlying graph (parse-tree) of the grammar.
>
> Regardless, I have a Scala tool that parses EBNF. I'm not sure about 
> interop, but it's all JVM, right? https://github.com/benknoble/loner
>
> On Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 3:21:36 PM UTC-4 jsch...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was hoping that I can call
>>
>> (instaparse.core/parser "my ::= 'ebnf' | 'grammar' ")
>>
>> to get a parse tree of the EBNF. I'd like to convert the EBNF to a 
>> tree-sitter grammar.js.
>>
>> But when I evaluate the above expression, I only see a the original EBNF 
>> input, reformatted, and without comments:
>>
>> => my = "ebnf" | "grammar"
>>
>> Is there a way to get hands on the underlying structure, i.e. the parse 
>> tree?
>>
>> Best, Jakob
>>
>

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