to parse the source program into the basic elements or tokens of the language
to build a literal table and an identifier table
to build a uniform symbol table
to recognize the major constructs of the language and to call the appropriate action routines that will generate the intermediate form or matrix for these constructs
a permanent table which lists all key words and special symbols of the language in symbolic form
consists of a full or partial list of the tokens as they appear in the program. Created by Lexical analysis and used for syntax analysis and interpretation
a permanent table of decision rules in the form of patterns for matching with the uniform symbol table to discover syntactic structure
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