import { Parent } from "unist";
/**
 * Parse a string of GEDCOM data into an unist-compatible
 * abstract syntax tree. This is the core function for transforming
 * GEDCOM into JSON data that captures all of its detail, but
 * for practical usage you may also want to run `compact`
 * on the generated syntax tree to compress attributes.
 *
 * **Note**: the AST format uses 'children' to indicate the children
 * of abstract syntax tree nodes, but these are not equivalent to
 * parent/child relationships in family data.
 *
 * @param input - GEDCOM data as a string
 * @returns ast
 */
export declare function parse(input: string): Parent;