[lojban] Re: What Is Lojban? Chapter 2.

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

--- Dmitry <ratson@mail.ru> wrote:
> 
> Consider following simple text:
> mi sutra klama le blanu zdani be la djan. le
> briju
> 
> (it is sample from a "What Is Lojban? Chapter
> 2.")
> 
> It is said that "be la djan." is sumti of a
> "blanu zdani". Why not 
> "sutra clama"? just because of "be"?

Yes, just because of the {be}, which indicates
that the following sumti is attached to the
preceding sumti, not to a "main verb" (selbri,
sentence forming predicate).  [There are some
very remote exceptions to this rule which almost
never arise and certainly don't in this case]