X-Digest-Num: 133 Message-ID: <44114.133.816.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 00:59:53 -0400 From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group Subject: A "feature" of the grammar X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 816 Content-Length: 1357 Lines: 38 Nora discovered a "feature" of the baselined grammar tonight in testing the parser/glosser. It also happens to trigger a parser problem which can lead to an incorrect gloss (no prepositions at the very least). le nu klama pu xamgu parses with the pu adding an elidable "ku" and being incorporated into the nu abstraction clause, and the resulting nu-abstraction modifies the xamgu as a tanru. In short, the above is a description sumti, and not a complete sentence. You can fix this with "kei" or "ku" before the "pu" to keep it from getting absorbed into the abstraction, but this is a pain if there are nested abstractions or some other more complex sumti before the "pu". le nu klama cu pu xamgu is the most clear and correct form. The erroneous form happens to cause the parser to generate a strange parse tree where it reports the error correction of the elided "ku" after "pu". The result could lead to an unrecognizable gloss. lojbab ---- lojbab ***NOTE NEW ADDRESS*** 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: see Lojban WWW Server: href=" http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/ " Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.