[lojban-beginners] Re: RK-like diagramming: Anyone interested?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 17:49, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> I was under the impression that that's one of the special things about
> this language - that a particular syntactic structure associated
> unambiguously with a particular semantic structure. So, for instance,
> a tanru is a seltau/tertau pair, where either may be itself a tanru,
> and the semantic meaning of that syntactis structure is that the
> seltau in some manner modifies or restricts the meaning of the
> tertau... so a parse tree that displays the nonterminal for a tanru
> and has as leaves the seltau and tertau /would/ emphasize the semantic
> meaning.

True for tanru and most other constructions, but not for some conjunctions. 
For instance, {lo snomabru ku ce lo cakmabru ku ce lo mantyctimabru} denotes 
the set {sloth, armadillo, anteater}, not the set {{sloth, armadillo}, 
anteater}, which is what the parse tree implies.

phma