Module:Labels

This is the documentation for Module:Labels, the sense-label renderer for the Yezur wiki's Dictionary. It is not called directly: Template:Lb invokes it as {{#invoke:Labels|lb|CODE|label1|label2|…}}, passing a language code and up to seven labels. The module returns those labels comma-joined, italicised and parenthesised, in the order given — {{lb|YAP-XX|by extension}} renders (by extension) at the head of a definition line — and appends a per-language category for each label it recognises. When no label survives trimming it returns nothing at all.

Parameters

Parameter	Purpose
1	The language code, such as YBS-PJ. It is trimmed and matched without regard to case in Module:Languages, which supplies the display name used in the category titles; the code itself is never shown.
2, 3, …	The labels, in display order. Each is trimmed, and empty values are skipped. Reading stops at the first argument that is absent altogether, which only affects direct invocation: Template:Lb always supplies slots 2 to 8, so unfilled slots between filled ones do no harm.

Categorising labels

A label in the table below files the page into a category named after the language, written Lang here: under YBS-PJ, transitive adds Category:Pjany transitive verbs. Recognition ignores case, but only a shorthand is rewritten — the shorthands in the second column are replaced by the canonical label before display, whereas a canonical label is shown exactly as typed, so Transitive renders (Transitive) and categorises all the same.

Label	Shorthand	Category
Verbs
transitive	tr	Lang transitive verbs
intransitive	intr	Lang intransitive verbs
ambitransitive		Lang ambitransitive verbs
ditransitive	ditr	Lang ditransitive verbs
ergative		Lang ergative verbs
reflexive		Lang reflexive verbs
impersonal		Lang impersonal verbs
copulative		Lang copulative verbs
auxiliary		Lang auxiliary verbs
modal		Lang modal verbs
causative		Lang causative verbs
deponent		Lang deponent verbs
pronominal		Lang pronominal verbs
reciprocal		Lang reciprocal verbs
Nouns
countable	count	Lang countable nouns
uncountable	uncount	Lang uncountable nouns
collective		Lang collective nouns
singular only		Lang singular-only nouns
plural only		Lang plural-only nouns
attributive		Lang attributive terms
Adjectives
comparable		Lang comparable adjectives
not comparable		Lang uncomparable adjectives
predicative		Lang predicative-only terms
Register and usage
slang		Lang slang
colloquial	colloq	Lang colloquialisms
informal		Lang informal terms
formal		Lang formal terms
vulgar		Lang vulgarities
derogatory	derog	Lang derogatory terms
offensive		Lang offensive terms
slur		Lang slurs
euphemistic	euph	Lang euphemisms
dysphemistic		Lang dysphemisms
humorous	hum	Lang humorous terms
endearing		Lang terms of endearment
familiar		Lang familiar terms
childish		Lang childish terms
honorific		Lang honorifics
humble		Lang humble terms
polite		Lang polite terms
solemn		Lang solemn terms
poetic		Lang poetic terms
literary		Lang literary terms
journalistic		Lang journalistic terms
technical		Lang technical terms
rustic		Lang rustic terms
proscribed		Lang proscribed terms
nonstandard		Lang nonstandard terms
dialectal		Lang dialectal terms
Temporal
archaic	arch	Lang archaic terms
dated		Lang dated terms
obsolete	obs	Lang obsolete terms
historical		Lang historical terms
rare		Lang rare terms
uncommon		Lang uncommon terms
neologism		Lang neologisms
Word formation
abbreviation		Lang abbreviations
acronym		Lang acronyms
initialism		Lang initialisms
contraction		Lang contractions
onomatopoeia		Lang onomatopoeias
misspelling		Lang misspellings
eye dialect		Lang eye dialect

One further shorthand, fig, expands to figurative, which is not a categorising label.

A label absent from the table is shown exactly as typed and adds no category, so domain tags such as nautical or botany and semantic qualifiers such as figurative or idiomatic work without any entry here. The categorising set is deliberately partial and is meant to grow as the category scheme is settled; it is curated from Wiktionary's label data, keeping the universal linguistic labels — valency, register, temporal, word formation — and leaving out the topical and regional domains.

Categories are added only when the code resolves in Module:Languages; an unknown or missing code still displays the labels, uncategorised. The module adds membership only — it does not create the category description pages, and most of the categories above are as yet empty.

For the division of labour between a per-sense label and the per-word register field of {{head}}, see Template:Lb.

---

-- Module:Labels — inline sense labels for Dictionary definitions, after the
-- fashion of Wiktionary's {{lb}}. Renders italic, parenthesised context /
-- register / domain labels immediately before a sense, and (for labels it
-- knows) files the page into a per-language maintenance category. Backs {{lb}}.
--
-- Any label not in the table below still displays, verbatim, with no category —
-- so figurative, by extension, and unlisted domains just work as plain text.
-- Keep the categorising set deliberately small; the category scheme is the
-- operator's to grow.

local Languages = require('Module:Languages')

local p = {}

-- label key (lower-cased) -> category suffix; {lang} is replaced by the
-- language's display name, e.g. "slang" -> "Pjany slang".
local CATS = {
	-- grammatical context
	["transitive"]   = "{lang} transitive verbs",
	["intransitive"] = "{lang} intransitive verbs",
	["ergative"]     = "{lang} ergative verbs",
	["reflexive"]    = "{lang} reflexive verbs",
	["impersonal"]   = "{lang} impersonal verbs",
	["ditransitive"] = "{lang} ditransitive verbs",
	["countable"]    = "{lang} countable nouns",
	["uncountable"]  = "{lang} uncountable nouns",
	-- register / usage
	["colloquial"]  = "{lang} colloquialisms",
	["informal"]    = "{lang} informal terms",
	["formal"]      = "{lang} formal terms",
	["slang"]       = "{lang} slang",
	["vulgar"]      = "{lang} vulgarities",
	["derogatory"]  = "{lang} derogatory terms",
	["offensive"]   = "{lang} offensive terms",
	["euphemistic"] = "{lang} euphemisms",
	["honorific"]   = "{lang} honorifics",
	["literary"]    = "{lang} literary terms",
	["poetic"]      = "{lang} poetic terms",
	["archaic"]     = "{lang} archaic terms",
	["obsolete"]    = "{lang} obsolete terms",
	["dated"]       = "{lang} dated terms",
	["historical"]  = "{lang} historical terms",
	["rare"]        = "{lang} rare terms",
	["nonstandard"] = "{lang} nonstandard terms",
	["dialectal"]   = "{lang} dialectal terms",
}

local function langname(code)
	local l = Languages._get(code)
	return (l and l.name) or ""
end

-- {{#invoke:Labels|lb|CODE|label1|label2|...}}
function p.lb(frame)
	local a = frame.args
	local lang = langname(a[1])
	local shown, cats = {}, {}
	local i = 2
	while a[i] ~= nil do
		local key = mw.text.trim(a[i])
		if key ~= "" then
			shown[#shown + 1] = key
			local suffix = CATS[key:lower()]
			if suffix and lang ~= "" then
				cats[#cats + 1] = "[[Category:" .. suffix:gsub("{lang}", lang) .. "]]"
			end
		end
		i = i + 1
	end
	if #shown == 0 then return "" end
	return "''(" .. table.concat(shown, ", ") .. ")''" .. table.concat(cats)
end

return p