[lojban] Re: Annotated PEG grammar

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://pdf23ds.net/lojban/Annotated%20Grammar.html
>
> Here's a very unfinished version of an annotated grammar. Anybody want
> to see it finished?

I wouldn't mind seeing the annotations finished, I think that's a
useful thing to have, but what I would really want is seeing the rules
cleaned up, including some minor adjustments to the grammar.  This
grammar is not official yet so we do have some room to tinker.

For example, why is joik-jek up there in the text rule instead of
being a fragment? Presumably this dangling joik-jek is there to allow
answers to je'i questions, but the proper place for such things is the
fragments rule. For example, to a "ko'a ji ko'e ji ko'i" question one
can answer ".e .i .e", and these are two fragments, separated by ".i".
To a "broda je'i brode je'i brodi" question it is also possible to
answer "je .i je", but the parse is completely different and not very
sensical. Moving joik-jek to fragment requires a couple of adjustments
in other rules, but I don't see any reason not to do it.

BTW, the comment about free* and UI is not exactly rght. In fact UI is
not an instance of free, and can occur in a few more places than
free*. For example, UI can occur between CMENE and free can't. That's
another thing that should be changed, free should be able to appear
anywhere that it doesn't cause a problem.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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