Re: Updated old Lojban drama la sinderelwyd (long)

[Richard Curnow <richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com>]

de'i li 19:7 vecu'u le notci
neme'e la'o xy. <199907200118.VAA29119@brap-1.cais.net> xy.
la'o xy. Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group xy. pu ciska di'e la jbomriste :

(On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group wrote:)

> From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group <lojbab@lojban.org>
> 
> This year, however, we had Nick Nicholas present.  So after an all night
> effot by Nick and Nora, I am able to present you with an updated version of
> "la sinderelwyd." which is (we hope) correct and up to date in grammar and
> vocabulary.  In doing so, it takes its place as the longest piece of Lojban
> text ever written and verified grammatical by parsing, at around 11K.
> 

Agreed, it runs fine through the parser for version 2.33 of the language.
For version 3.0 of the language there is a small problem, in the following
section :

.i sei ry. boi py. la sindereluyd. cu dunda
        .i do ca ponse le pikta
.i sei krefu nu makfa xancymuvdu se'u
        .ije le selgunka ca mulno
.i to'i sindereluyd. toi:       .ui  .i mi ca kakne lenu klama le nunsalci
.i  .y  naku .uu mi ponse lo mapti taxfu

The problem is the 3rd and 4th lines above.  In version 3.00, an ijek must
follow a statement-1 or statement-2 (refer to bnf.300).  However, the
thing before the ijek in line 4 is just an 'I' followed by a 'free'.
Neither statement-1 or statement-2 can be reduced to by just a 'free'.
Comparison with the equivalent part of bnf.233 shows why it works in the
older version - I leave it as an exercise to the reader to look up the
details!

To fix this for version 3.00 I think the following change might be OK :

.i sei ry. boi py. la sindereluyd. cu dunda
        .i do ca ponse le pikta
.ije sei krefu nu makfa xancymuvdu se'u
        le selgunka ca mulno

i.e. just move the je to the start of the preceding line and make the
'free' come at the start of the following sentence.

That's my only comment so far, I'm still reading through.

co'o mi'e ritcyd.

-- 
Richard P. Curnow
Stevenage, England