[Pyparsing] Choppping up search terms

[Donn I. <don...@gm...>]

Hello pyparsers. 
As much as pyparsing astounds my small mind, I have yet to write my own 
'grammar' without having to ask for help! And here I am again. I hope 
someone will have mercy on me.

I am adding a search function to Fonty Python and this starts with chopping-
up a string into tokens. I have a simple set of rules:

phrase1 phrase2 field: value1 value2 "value three" field2: value1 etc

Any word on it's own if it's NOT after a fieldname is a phrase alone. 
Anything after a fieldname is a sub-phrase of that field, unless it's 
another fieldname.

I am just not getting anything like what I am looking for. 
\d

My hacking and surfing and re-hacking have ended here:

import pyparsing as PP #testing with vers 1.4.8 and 1.5.0

simple = PP.Word(PP.alphas)
quoted = PP.dblQuotedString.setParseAction(PP.removeQuotes)
single = PP.OneOrMore(simple | quoted)
special = PP.Combine(PP.Word(PP.alphas) + ":") + single

#term = special | single 
query = PP.OneOrMore( special | single )# + PP.StringEnd() <- buggy

tests=[
u"WTF Huh aField: aValue", 
# want: [u'WTF', u'Huh', {u'aField:':[u'aValue']}]
u'aField : "aValue blah" bloop AnotherField: two', 
# want: [{u'aField:':[u'aValue blah',u'bloop']},{u'AnotherField:':u'two'}]
u"aField: Someval AnotherField: two" 
# want : [{u'aField:':[u'SomeVal']},{u'AnotherField:':u'two'}]
]

for test in tests:
	print test
	try:
		tokens=query.parseString(test)
		print tokens
	except:
		print "BUG"