On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:19 PM, ianek
<jan...@gmail.com> wrote:
The result of parsing should show what was meant and not what are all of the possible and probably not intended syntactic constructions in the sentence.
One word can have several meanings. "Full" can mean "satiated". When I say "the moon is full", it is poor form for the listener to object on the grounds that the moon does not even have a mouth to eat with. It is the listener's responsibility in a rational discussion to find the intended meaning of the words used that makes the uttered sentences make most sense and be most true, even if other meanings may make the sentence false or nonsensical.
When a Lojbanist says "Properly formed Lojban parses in just one way", it is the listener's responsibility to interpret "parses" as "syntactically parses", so that the uttered sentence makes the most sense and is most true. The result of "parsing" is as you say for some meanings of "parsing" ("semantic parsing"),