From lojbab@lojban.org Thu May 22 14:53:12 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 22 May 2003 14:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao02.cox.net ([68.1.17.243]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19Ixzl-0005i0-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 14:53:05 -0700 Received: from bob.lojban.org ([68.100.92.1]) by lakemtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030522215234.FKOA24359.lakemtao02.cox.net@bob.lojban.org> for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 17:52:34 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030522175045.034d2c90@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: rlechevalier@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 17:52:11 -0400 To: lojban-list@lojban.org From: Robert LeChevalier Subject: [lojban] Re: modal connection In-Reply-To: <20030522205755.71164.qmail@web41906.mail.yahoo.com> References: <004101c32094$e53043a0$fe7aa8c0@ONEOF> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 5347 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list At 01:57 PM 5/22/03 -0700, Jorge "Llambías" wrote: >la ctefan cusku di'e > > I was somewhat surprised when I found out that modal connection after > > non-logical connectives (e.g. {fa'uni'ibo} ) is not grammatical > according to > > the parser. > > > > Was this simply forgotten or intended? And if so what was the intention? > >It seems to be grammatical according to the EBNF grammar: > >statement-2 = statement-3 [I [jek | joik] [stag] BO # [statement-2]] > >sumti-3 = sumti-4 [(ek | joik) [stag] BO # sumti-3] > >selbri-5 = selbri-6 [(jek | joik) [stag] BO # selbri-5] > >operator-1 = [...] | operator-2 (jek | joik) [stag] BO # operator-1 > >operand-2 = operand-3 [(ek | joik) [stag] BO # operand-2] A couple of trials worked in the official parser. We'd need to see the exact sentence to determine if there was something idiosyncratically wrong. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org