Re: [lojban] semantic parser - tersmu-0.1rc1

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:
>
> Hmm. I wonder if I now finally understand part of xorlo: would you say
> that {lo broda} is equivalent, under this side-clause interpretation of
> {noi} you've just set out, to {le broda noi broda}?

I can't think of any reason why not, but then I'm not completely
satisfied that I understand "le".

> I don't know about {lo}, but presumably {le broda ku voi brode} is
> equivalent to {le broda je brode}.

Let's see.

Assuming

(1) le broda = zo'e noi mi ke'a do skicu lo ka broda

(2) ko'a voi broda = ko'a noi mi ke'a do skicu lo ka broda

Then we have:

(3) le broda ku voi brode = zo'e noi mi ke'a do skicu lo ka broda zi'e
noi mi ke'a do skicu lo ka brode

 which I'm happy to reduce to:

(4) le broda ku voi brode = zo'e noi mi ke'a do skicu lo ka broda .e lo ka brode

I'm not so sure about the move to:

(5) le broda ku voi brode = zo'e noi mi ke'a do skicu lo ka broda gi'e brode

and then to:

(6) le broda ku voi brode = zo'e noi mi ke'a do skicu lo ka broda je brode

which would give us:

(7) le broda ku voi brode = le broda je brode

The move from (4) to (5) is the one I find most suspect. It has to do
with the semantics of "skicu", and of course also definitions (1) and
(2) in terms of "skicu" may or may not be right.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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