[lojban-beginners] Re: Grammar question

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Apr 9, 2005 8:21 PM, jacqueslen@sympatico.ca <jacqueslen@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I've been told that {klama be la moreal.} parses as a selbri. now I see two possible ways to parse {se klama be la moreal.}:
> {{se klama} be la moreal} and
> {se {klama be la moreal}
> I've been told the first one is the correct one, but why?

There is no deep reason, it was just defined that way.
In the same way {broda brode brodi} is {(broda brode) brodi)
and not {broda (brode brodi)}. And {broda brode} is {brode}
modified by {broda} and not {broda} modified by {brode}.
In principle, things could have been defined the other way
in each case, but they just happen to be defined as they are.

You can get the other meaning with {se ke klama be la moreal 
[ke'e]} and you can also say {ke se klama ke'e be la moreal}, 
but here the brackets are not really needed because {se} has 
priority anyway.

mu'o mi'e xorxes