Subject: Re: Parsing

From: "A.W.T." <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 06:24:09 -0000

--- In lojban@y..., "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@h...> wrote:
> 
> la aulun cusku di'e
> 
> >{.i latyte'a gi'e bau la madjar. sipta'a}
> >
> >Does this mean that the first utterance is ungrammatical (which I doubt) 
> >or=
> > just that the algorithm expects a selbri to immediately
> >follow the {gi'e}?
> 
> It is ungrammatical because {gi'e} must be followed by a "bridi-tail",
> which must start with a selbri.

I'm having problems to agree with this:

1) mi tavla do bau la lojban. (grammatical)
2) mi bau la lojban. [cu] tavla do (as well) or
3) mi do bau la lojban. [cu] tavla

hence: leaving out the first place {mi} gets me a bridi-tail, e.g. {... tavla do bau la lojban.} or {bau la lojban. tavla do} etc.
Is there a rule explicitely stating in the Book that only bridi-tails *starting with a selbri* are allowed after {gi'e}?

co'o mi'e .aulun.