Re: [lojban] Re: Even simple texts are difficult

["Adam Raizen" <araizen@newmail.net>]

la xorxes. cusku di'e

> {ni'a} is a tense, it can precede a selbri, but {ni'a ckune}
> does not mean "x1 is under a connifer". It means "x1 is a
> connifer under something".

"x1 is a connifer under the speaker"

> Also, modals, like all tags, can
> precede a selbri as well as a sumti. When preceding a selbri,
> the effect is usually the same as preceding a sumti which is
> understood from context (the glaring exceptions to this being
> ba'o and pu'o).

Much of the time, that sumti is necessarily the speaker.

mu'o mi'e .adam.