SyntaxError: Unexpected Identifier (Generators in ES6)

Summarizing the comments: you can’t use yield inside a regular function, so you can’t use yield with forEach. Here an example of “generatorized” foreach:

function * foreach (arr, fn) {
  var i

  for (i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
    yield * fn(arr[i])
  }
}

function * gen (number) {
  yield number + 1
  yield number + 2
  yield number + 3
}

function * other () {
  yield * foreach([1, 2, 3], gen)
}

for (var i of other()) {
    console.log(i)
}

UPDATE
Also the original problem can be solved quite elegantly using such a helper:

var nodes = {
  type: 'root',
  value: [
    { type: 'char', value: 'a' },
    { type: 'char', value: 'b' },
    { type: 'root', value: [
        { type: 'char', value: 'c' },
        { type: 'char', value: 'd' },
        { type: 'char', value: 'e' },
      ] 
    },
  ],
}

function * foreach (arr, fn) {
  var i

  for (i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
    yield * fn(arr[i])
  }
}

function * value (val) {
  yield val
}

function * recursiveGenerator(node) {
  yield * node.type === 'root' ?  foreach(node.value, recursiveGenerator) : value(node.value)
}

for (var generated of recursiveGenerator(nodes)) {
  console.log(generated);
}

So the generator itself becomes a one-liner!