[lojban] Re: modal connection

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 01:57 PM 5/22/03 -0700, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> la ctefan cusku di'e
> > I was somewhat surprised when I found out that modal connection after
> > non-logical connectives (e.g. {fa'uni'ibo} ) is not grammatical 
> according to
> > the parser.
> >
> > Was this simply forgotten or intended? And if so what was the intention?
>
> It seems to be grammatical according to the EBNF grammar:
>
> statement-2 = statement-3 [I [jek | joik] [stag] BO # [statement-2]]
>
> sumti-3 = sumti-4 [(ek | joik) [stag] BO # sumti-3]
>
> selbri-5 = selbri-6 [(jek | joik) [stag] BO # selbri-5]
>
> operator-1 = [...] | operator-2 (jek | joik) [stag] BO # operator-1
>
> operand-2 = operand-3 [(ek | joik) [stag] BO # operand-2]

A couple of trials worked in the official parser.  We'd need to see the 
exact sentence to determine if there was something idiosyncratically wrong.

lojbab

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