Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:32:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxsUz-0002nY-SM for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:32:01 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.42]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxsUw-0002nM-Ta for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:32:01 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.103] (cpe-66-68-161-49.austin.res.rr.com [66.68.161.49]) by ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k64LVu7M011701 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 16:31:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44AADE4C.3080601@hypermetrics.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:31:56 -0500 From: Hal Fulton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (X11/20041209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: RK-like diagramming: Anyone interested? References: <44AAC810.2070300@hypermetrics.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3328 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: hal9000@hypermetrics.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 386 Jonathan Gibbons wrote: > ....Wouldn't such a diagram mostly be a drawing of the parse tree of > the sentance? it kinda seems to me like it'd be somewhat reverse > engineering the beast to do it otherwise... I don't think so. A diagram of this nature is to illumine semantics, though it does of course touch on syntax. I don't think a simple syntax tree would be rich enough. Hal