From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 28 11:10:14 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:10:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B7ffd-00041i-6p for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:10:09 -0800 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:10:09 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: another sentence to try the parser on Message-ID: <20040328191009.GG6569@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200403281403.04005.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403281403.04005.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7373 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 02:03:04PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > {le gerku pe naku cu klama ti} is valid according to jbofi'e, but {le > naku gerku cu klama ti} is not. Both my parser and the official one agree on both those points. The reason is simple: sumti-tail-1 <- quantifier? selbri relative-clauses? / quantifier sumti If that last word was "term" and not "sumti", this would work. By way of comparison: relative-clause <- GOI free* term (GEhU free*)? / NOI free* subsentence (KUhO free*)? The "naku" case is in term, which is a *parent* for sumti. > I can't see what this genstura is good for, except to translate the > King's remarks at the beginning of the chapter. It's actually just a side effect of being able to use 'naku' in general. IMO, nothing much would be changed by moving NA KU to sumti, since term calls sumti anyways. I'd like to see a good reason, though, and as you point out there isn't one. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui