Re: [lojban] The efficacy of Lojban's grammar.

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 10 pi'e 04 pi'e 2010 la'o fy. Luke Bergen .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> > "lo melbi ko
> > li'i cerni" (have a beautiful morning, or literally, be the
> > experiencer of a beautiful experience of a morning).
> 
> I'm having a little trouble parsing this myself.  Let's see.  {lo melbi ko
> li'i cerni}  ->  {lo melbi ku cu li'i cerni ko} ?
> 
> Could someone with a bit more knowledge break it down correctly for me?  How
> many sumti are there, which chunk is the selbri (if any), etc...
> Thanks.
.skamyxatra

It's "{lo melbi [ku] cu li'i cerni [vau kei] ko [vau]}."  The key thing to note
here is that "{li'i}" belongs to {selma'o} NU, and so it converts a {bridi} (in
this case just "{cerni}") into a {selbri} with the place structure "x1 is x2's
experience of [bridi]."  Thus, "{lo melbi ko li'i cerni}" translates as "A
beautiful thing is your (imperative) experience of morning" or "Have/experience
a beautiful morning."

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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