From cowan Mon Oct  2 11:17:48 1995
Subject: Re: parser bug - or my?
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 11:17:48 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <199510012223.SAA10546@locke.ccil.org> from "Cyril Slobin" at Oct 2, 95 00:59:46 am
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la kir. cusku di'e

> I feed this line to the parser:
> 
>     mi cuscu lu .ue la djan. klama li'u
> 
> And the answer was:
> 
>     (mi {cuscu <[(lu ue) ({la djan} {klama VAU}) li'u] VAU>})
> 
> So it seems parser think the quotation itself is surprise!
> And it was a great surprise for me :-)...

I'll bet.  The parser simply attaches attitudinals to the preceding
word first; then it does conventional parsing.

> So can I quote the sentence beginning with emotional indicator?

Yes; the parser is in error here, and you are correct.
(Note:  "cuscu" should be "cusku".)

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John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.