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Subject: Re: Even simple texts are difficult
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--- In lojban@y..., "Adam Raizen" <araizen@n...> wrote:
> la xorxes. cusku di'e
> 
> > {ni'a} is a tense, it can precede a selbri, but {ni'a ckune}
> > does not mean "x1 is under a connifer". It means "x1 is a
> > connifer under something".
> 
> "x1 is a connifer under the speaker"

That's it

> > Also, modals, like all tags, can
> > precede a selbri as well as a sumti. When preceding a selbri,
> > the effect is usually the same as preceding a sumti which is
> > understood from context (the glaring exceptions to this being
> > ba'o and pu'o).

>From the semantics intended, I thought it to be a mis-constructed sumti tcita, but you're right, it is not *ungrammatical*.

mi'e .aulun