Abstract: A method may include receiving a syntactic database query for retrieving information, where the syntactic database query may include two or more tokens. A subset of the two or more tokens may include a nested aggregation, and the nested aggregation may include at least (a) a first aggregate expression including a first aggregate function, a first base, and a first range, and (b) a second aggregate expression including a second aggregate function, a second base and a second range, where the second range includes the first aggregate expression. The method may further include parsing the two or more of tokens, where parsing includes identifying at least a first query context and a second query context.