Snowball Stemming: defining Regions

Question

I'm trying to understand the snoball stemming algorithmus. The algorithmus is using two regions R1 and R2 that are definied as follows:

R1 is the region after the first non-vowel following a vowel, or is the null region at the end of the word if there is no such non-vowel.

R2 is the region after the first non-vowel following a vowel in R1, or is the null region at the end of the word if there is no such non-vowel.

http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/r1r2.html

Examples are

    b   e   a   u   t   i   f   u   l
                      |<------------->|    R1
                              |<----->|    R2

   b   e   a   u   t   y
                     |<->|    R1
                       ->|<-  R2

   a   n   i   m   a   d   v   e   r   s   i   o   n
        |<----------------------------------------->|    R1
                |<--------------------------------->|    R2

   s   p   r   i   n   k   l   e   d
                     |<------------->|    R1
                                   ->|<-  R2

    e   u   c   h   a   r   i   s   t
            |<--------------------->|    R1
                        |<--------->|    R2

My question is, why is "kled" in springkled and "harist" in eucharist defined as R1? I thought the correct result would be "inkled" and "arist"?

Answer 1

You should read the definition again, it says :

R1 is the region after the first non-vowel following a vowel.

Not: followed by a vowel.

In sprinkled, the first non-vowel following a vowel is n, so the region after is kled.

The same for eucharist, the first non-vowel following a vowel is c, so the region after is harist.