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

Jorge Llambías, On 27/11/2011 17:12:

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:19 AM, And Rosta<and.rosta@gmail.com>  wrote:

Jorge Llambías, On 26/11/2011 17:35:


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


I think they're both wrong. The "noi" would introduce an illocutionary
element I-HEREBY-ASSERT-INCIDENTALLY, that is not present in "le broda =
ko'a voi broda". Rather, "le broda = ko'a voi broda" involve an
illocutionary element DEI-KE'A-DO-SKICU, "I-HEREBY-NONVERIDICALLY-SAY".


I think the "I-HEREBY-ASSERT" part is not really in noi, but rather
it's the default illocutionary operator for otherwise unmarked
propositions, but it can be changed with "noi xu ...", "noi .a'o ...",
"noi .ei ...", "noi .e'o ..." and so on.

And "voi", assuming it's a variant of "noi" and not of "poi", should
then be something like "noi pe'a".
That's a good analysis, but it requires you to distinguish between clauses that contain no illocutionary operator and that clauses that contain an explicit or implicit illocutionary operator, since noi clauses would belong to the latter type. 
--And.

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