Datasets:
ar-conjugation — technical details
Files
data/json/verbs.json 495 records, the canonical form (pretty-printed, sorted as the book was read)
data/jsonl/verbs.jsonl the same records, one JSON object per line
data/csv/conjugations.csv one row per inflected form: id,lemma,root,wazn,form,tense,voice,person,variant,text
data/jsonl/conjugations.jsonl the same rows as JSON objects (the Hugging Face "cells" config)
data/csv/verbs.csv one row per paradigm: id,lemma,root,wazn,form,past_vowel,nonpast_vowel,full_passive,
reduced,root_type,verb_type,model,template,page,printed_page,masdar,
active_participle,passive_participle
data/json/errata.json corrected misprints, deliberately empty cells, printing conventions
scripts/build_dataset.py rebuilds data/ from a checkout of the private source repository
scripts/validate.py shape, counts, NFC, csv/json agreement (CI)
scripts/push_hf.py mirrors data/ + README to Hugging Face
scripts/serve.py serves site/ locally with data/ mounted as on GitHub Pages
site/ the browsing page
Fields
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
id |
Stable identifier, NNN_MMM: reading order in the upstream corpus, then the book's model number. |
lemma |
The citation form: 3rd person masculine singular of the active past, as printed. |
root |
The root, bare letters. Hamza is always ء; a final ي covers both ي and ى. |
wazn |
The pattern, named the way Arabic grammar names it: form I carries its past and non-past vowels (فعَل يفعُل), the other forms their shape (استفعل). 22 values. |
form |
Western form number: I–XIII for triliteral verbs, Iq–IVq for quadriliteral. |
vowels |
Form I only: the past and non-past stem vowels, a / i / u. |
flags.full_passive |
The page prints a personal passive for persons other than 3ms. Set on 48 paradigms (an engine needs telling, since transitivity cannot be read off the root). |
flags.reduced |
The page prints the assimilated shape of an affix: forms V/VI with the تَ- assimilated into a coronal first radical (اِسَّمَّعَ for تَسَمَّعَ), form VII with the ن assimilated into م (اِمَّدَحَ), form IIIq with the ن assimilated into a weak ل1 (اِهْبَيَّخَ). 10 paradigms. |
classification.root_type |
Root-structure class id (1–55) per the scheme in the upstream GLOSSARY.md (Paper 1). |
classification.verb_type |
Augmentation code [R]+A[-Fn] per the upstream GLOSSARY.md (Paper 2): radicals + added letters, then the form within that group, e.g. 3+2-III. |
source.model |
The book's own model number for the paradigm (its classification of the verb). |
source.template |
A: one of the book's 83 abstract-model pages, five columns (active and passive). B: one of the two-verb pages, three columns (active only). null: read from the 2nd edition before the page inventory existed and not determinable. |
source.page |
The page's index in the 6th-edition scan (pdfimages numbering). |
source.printed_page |
The page number printed on the page. The offset between the two is not constant (14 to 17), so neither is ever computed from the other; a null means it was not recorded. |
source.label |
The upstream fixture label, kept for traceability. |
conjugation.<column> |
past, past_pass, ind (المضارع المرفوع), ind_pass, imp. null = the page has no such column. Otherwise an object keyed by person; a person absent from it is a cell the page leaves blank or misprints (see errata). |
derived |
The block printed under the table: masdar (list, in the book's order), active_participle, passive_participle. null for the 28 paradigms read before that block was extracted. |
derived.status.* |
How the derived noun was checked. agrees-with-module: one OCR pass that agrees with the independent engine. read-from-page is not a status but the flag read_from_page: the cell was read by a person from the page image, at 4–14×. differs-from-module: the book's reading stands and the engine derives something else (6 cells, all explained upstream). book-only: the engine derives no such noun. none: the book prints none. |
Person codes and cell values
3ms 3md 3mp 3fs 3fd 3fp 2ms 2d 2mp 2fs 2fp 1s 1p — third person first, as the book's tables run. The book prints أنتما twice (masculine and feminine dual, identical forms); the dataset has one gender-neutral 2d. The imperative has the five second persons.
A cell is a string. Ten cells are a list of strings: the book prints two alternatives in one cell (اِئْتِ / اِيتِ, عُشَّ / اُعْشُشْ, يَرَى / يَرْأَى, …), in the book's order. In conjugations.csv these become two rows with variant 1 and 2.
Every string is Unicode NFC (so a vowel precedes a following shadda), contains only Arabic letters and marks, and carries no tatweel or bidi controls. scripts/validate.py enforces all of this.
Errata
errata.json has three lists:
deliberately_empty_cells(17): cells the page prints but the dataset leaves out, each with its reason — six compositor slips where the page sets a neighbouring row's form, three where a page contradicts its own facing page of the same model, three genuinely blank (ink measured).corrected_misprints(4): cells where the dataset departs from the printed page, with the printed form, the corrected one and why.printing_conventions(7): spellings the book alternates between that are not differences of form.
Rebuilding
python3 scripts/build_dataset.py --source /path/to/source-checkout # or AR_CONJUGATION_SOURCE=...
python3 scripts/validate.py
python3 scripts/serve.py # http://localhost:8000/
HF_TOKEN=... uv run --with huggingface_hub scripts/push_hf.py
The build is deterministic; CI runs validate.py on every push, and pages.yml publishes site/ with data/ mounted beside it, so the site's download links serve the committed files.