[lojban] Event abstractors

[Major <lojban@audry2.com>]

As I understand it

  la djan. cu pu cinba la maris.

describes "John kissed Mary". I don't understand how this is different
to describing "an event of John kissed Mary":

  nu la djan. cu pu cinba la maris. kei

except that it now has bracketing which will allow it to be embedded
into another bridi without syntactic ambiguity:

  le nu la djan. cu pu cinba la maris. kei cu vrude
  (that John kissed Mary is good)

Am I missing something which "nu" does to the semantics here or
does "nu ... kei" just package up the event for embedding?

Major



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