Re: [lojban] question about ku

[".alyn.post." <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 06:11:14PM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote:
>    I don't know why it just occurred to me but... what exactly is "ku"
>    terminatiging in "baku mi citka"? Is there an implicit "lo" so that
>    parsers see this as /really/ being something like "baloku mi citka"? Or is
>    ku just able to terminate "ba"? I didn't know that BA had a terminator...
>    either way something feels strange.
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That's a weird one.  camxes reports:

  baku mi citka
  text
     sentence
     |- terms
     |  |- term1
     |  |  |- CMAVO
     |  |  |     PU: ba
     |  |  |- CMAVO
     |  |        KU: ku
     |  |- CMAVO
     |        KOhA: mi
     |- BRIVLA
           gismu: citka

And looking at the grammar:

  term-1 <- sumti
          / ( !gek
              ( tag   / FA-clause  free* )
              ( sumti / KU-clause? free* ) )
          / termset
          / NA-clause
            KU-clause
            free*

The second ordered choice is the relevant production: 

  ( !gek
    ( tag   / FA-clause  free* )
    ( sumti / KU-clause? free* ) )

Where the tag rule is eventually matching "ba" and the KU-clause
rule is matching ku.  I can't tell what that KU-clause is doing
there, it's in the EBNF too.

-Alan
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