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diff --git a/src/parser/event_parser/mod.rs b/src/parser/event_parser/mod.rs
index 65aea017b..1bb943b5d 100644
--- a/src/parser/event_parser/mod.rs
+++ b/src/parser/event_parser/mod.rs
@@ -4,17 +4,65 @@ use {SyntaxKind, Token};
 mod parser;
 mod grammar;
 
+
+/// `Parser` produces a flat list of `Event`s.
+/// They are converted to a tree-structure in
+/// a separate pass, via `TreeBuilder`.
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub(crate) enum Event {
+    /// This event signifies the start of the node.
+    /// It should be either abandoned (in which case the
+    /// `kind` is `TOMBSTONE`, and the event is ignored),
+    /// or completed via a `Finish` event.
+    ///
+    /// All tokens between a `Start` and a `Finish` would
+    /// become the children of the respective node.
+    ///
+    /// For left-recursive syntactic constructs, the parser produces
+    /// a child node before it sees a parent. `forward_parent`
+    /// exists to allow to tweak parent-child relationships.
+    ///
+    /// Consider this path
+    ///
+    /// foo::bar
+    ///
+    /// The events for it would look like this:
+    ///
+    ///
+    /// START(PATH) IDENT('foo') FINISH START(PATH) COLONCOLON IDENT('bar') FINISH
+    ///       |                          /\
+    ///       |                          |
+    ///       +------forward-parent------+
+    ///
+    /// And the tree would look like this
+    ///
+    ///    +--PATH---------+
+    ///    |   |           |
+    ///    |   |           |
+    ///    |  '::'       'bar'
+    ///    |
+    ///   PATH
+    ///    |
+    ///   'foo'
+    ///
+    /// See also `CompleteMarker::precede`.
     Start {
         kind: SyntaxKind,
         forward_parent: Option<u32>,
     },
+
+    /// Complete the previous `Start` event
     Finish,
+
+    /// Produce a single leaf-element.
+    /// `n_raw_tokens` is used to glue complex contextual tokens.
+    /// For example, lexer tokenizes `>>` as `>`, `>`, and
+    /// `n_raw_tokens = 2` is used to produced a single `>>`.
     Token {
         kind: SyntaxKind,
         n_raw_tokens: u8,
     },
+
     Error {
         message: String,
     },