[lojban-beginners] Re: pamoi le'i dotco prenu poi ...

[Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru>]

23.01.2006, 17:18 Evgeny Sklyanin wrote:

>  Actually, I don't see other possible parsing of the phrase. The
> structure of the phrase is exactly the same as for, say,
>  do viska le xirma poi mi nelci = You see the horse which I like.
>   If the scope of {le} terminates after {xirma} there is simply
> no place to attach the {poi} clause.

*Nod*   (C) Robin Lee Powell

Another explanation could be as follows:

A NOI clause can be attached only to sumti. It cannot be attached to {pamoi
le'i dotco prenu},  because that is (a part of bridi), and not (a
sumti).

>  The interpretation proposed by Opi Lauma,
>  "You are the first of Germans, and the one who I met" would correspond to something like
>   do du le pamoi be lei dotco prenu be'o poi mi penmi

Another way (seen in the IRC):
{do pamoi le'i dotco prenu gi'e se penmi mi}

mi'e .ianis.