On 29 Jan 2015 06:38, "Gleki Arxokuna" <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2015-01-28 23:40 GMT+03:00 'John E Clifford' via lojban <lojban@googlegroups.com>:
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>> There are clearly two valid parses for the English.
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> Why are you saying that the English sentence has two parses?
Because it does have two (in fact, three) parses. In one, "flying" is an adverbial adjunct (of "saw") with controlled subject; in a second, it is "object complement" (predicate in a small-clausal complement of "saw"); in a third, it is adjunct of "plane".
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