# Syntax Analysis


## Context-Free Grammars (CFG)

## Parse Tree

A tree representation of the derivation

parse tree has `terminals` at the leaves, `non-terminals` at the interior.

An in-order traversal of the leaves is the original input.

* leftmost derivation
* rightmost derivation

### Ambiguity

should be removed

for example: `A + B * C` should be resolved

**removing ambiguity**


### AST (Abstract Syntax Tree)


### Error Handling

One of the purposes of the compiler is error handling.
- to detect non-valid programs
- and to translate the non-valid to the valid

## Parsing

### Top-down Parsing

**Recursive Descent Parsing**

### Predictive Parsing