[lojban-beginners] Re: CONGRATULATION!!!

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1300, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:40:42AM +1300, Michael van der Gulik
> >wrote:
> >
> >>Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >>
> >>.ui sai do jinga lo ....
> >>
> >> festi se samymri
> >>
> >>.i mi'a pacna lo nu do gleki lo se jinga gi'e nelci ri ca lo ba
> >>nanca be li so'i
> >>
> >>I assume its x2 of "gleki" because "lo se jinga" (the prise)
> >>doesn't make as much sence as x3 of pacna, and there isn't the
> >>elidable terminator "ku" there.  
> >
> >It's actually because "lo nu" starts a subsentence, which doesn't
> >end until kei, vau, or .i
> > 
> >
> Okay, so does the "lo nu" context extend right past the "gi'e" to
> the end of the sentence? Phew. That's something I didn't consider.

That's correct, yes.

> .i mi'a pacna (lo nu (do (gleki lo se jinga) gi'e (nelci ri ca lo
> ba nanca be li so'i)))
 
> So, the main bridi here is pacna.

Correct.

> Pacna ("hope"):
>    x1 is "mi'a", "we"
>    x2 is the rest of the sentence ("lo nu do gleki..."), an event.

Correct.

> gleki ("happy"):
>    x1 is "do", "you"
>    x2 "lo se jinga", "the prize"
> 
> nelci ("fond"):
>    x1 is "do", because the "gi'e" is scoped back to only just before 
> the "do".
>    x2 is "ri"

Yup.

> I don't understand what the "ca" (presently) modifies. If "ri" is
> "lo se jinga", then I get the fragment:
> 
> do nelci lo se jinga ca lo ba nanca be li so'i
> ("you are fond of the prize for many years", roughly)
> 
> so it appears that "ca" belongs with "jinga". Is this correct?

No.  ca adds a "during time" place to nelci, and then fills it with
lo ba nanca be li so'i

-Robin

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