[lojban-beginners] Re: ‘There is the view from here’ question

[Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com>]

2009/9/26 tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>:
> As "be" inserts "vi" into the selbri "jvinu", the construct "be vi"
> becomes internal to the selbri, going down to a lower structure level.
> "ragve" cannot be part of "be vi" because "be" can only have a term
> and "vi ragve" is not a term; so, the construct "be vi" naturally
> terminates just before "ragve", with which the sentence comes back to
> the upper structure level. On that level, "ragve" is right after
> "jvinu", forming a tanru "jvinu [be vi] ragve". And with "le" it
> becomes one sumti.
>
> If you want "ragve" as the main selbri, you want to terminate all
> (one, in this case) preceding sumti in the sentence and bring "ragve"
> to the uppermost structure level. This can be done with "cu":
>
>  le jvinu be vi cu ragve fe do
>
> If you want "do" as the x3, the marker is "fi", not "fe". And, instead
> of "be vi", it would be more common to put "vi" before "jvinu",
> forming a tag selbri:
>
>  le vi jvinu cu ragve fi do


I see. Thanks. :) Then:

le vi jvinu cu ragve fi do

it is! :)