[lojban] Re: My parser, SI, SA, and ZOI

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:42:08AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> BTW, what does your parser do with {zei zei da} at the beginning of
> text?

tanruUnit=( tanruUnit1=( tanruUnit2=( anyWord=( zei ) spacingNoAbsorbOpt=( ) PARSERparen3=( ZEI=( zei ) anyWord=( da ) spacingNoAbsorbOpt=( ) ) absorbIndicators=() )

In other words, it creates a lujvo that means "zei type-of da".

Which is what I think a human would expect.

> > > {da zei de bu} is legal: first {da zei de} delivers BRIVLA, and
> > > then {BRIVLA BU} delivers BY.
> > 
> > Good point, but not terribly helpful for the ZO + ZEI case that I
> > can see.
> 
> At least it shows that "word" is a flexible concept in these
> definitions.

Oh, yeah.  Good point.

> In {zo da si de}, {zo da bu}, {zo da zei de}, we have zo and something
> else fighting over the same word, one pulling from the left and the
> other from the right. We just have to define which one has priority,
> and the other one should act on what remains.

I don't see any reason to over-ride grammar.300 on that point: ZO has
higher priority.  But then we're back to whether or not SI eats more
than one word, which grammar.300 says it does not.

-Robin

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