[lojban-beginners] A question on how causals in Lojban work in a sentence

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Recently I've been looking at some Lojbanic sentences or constructions or whatever, and came upon one in which I'm not sure how a causal relationship works, or of the role of "ri'a".

It is as follows:

ca lo nu mi klama lo zdani vau do pinxe lo tcati ri'a lo nu do taske

There are three bridi within this: 'mi klama lo zdani', 'do pinxe lo ladru' and 'do taske'; 'I go home', 'you drink milk' and 'you are thirsty' respectively.

I understand that ca at the beginning indicates that the relation/action described in the first bridi occurs before that in the second, and that ri'a indicaates a causal relationship with some aspect of the words that precede it being as a result of the final bridi, however I'm unsure exactly what that is, is it that one of the things happens before the other or does the causal relationship involve only thefinal two bridi with the first one added just for additional information as to when it happened?

Just wondering if anyone could clear that up for me, thanks.

Owen

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