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Thanks for this Addict: This gets at part of what I remember. I'm going to have to chew on it for understanding. FaqSphinx --- In Latejami@yahoogroups.com, MorphemeAddict@... wrote: > > FaqSphinx: > Is this what you meant? It's the end of the document (and has been for a > long time). > > Parsing Rule: > > When one constituent is embedded inside another, the parser will > not exit the current level of embedding until all syntactically > acceptable constituents have been parsed; i.e., it will leave > its current level only when it encounters a constituent that > violates the syntax for the current level. The semantics of the > construction will never be a consideration. For example, in a > sentence such as "verb1 noun verb2 noun oblique1 oblique2" where > verb2 takes a single core argument, both oblique arguments are > arguments of verb2. Since there will be cases in which it is > necessary to prematurely terminate the argument structure of an > embedded verb, we will need a particle to perform this function. > In the interlingua, we will use "jojope" for this purpose, and > refer to it as a valency terminator. For example, in > "verb1 noun verb2 noun oblique1 jojope oblique2", "oblique1" is > an argument of "verb2" while "oblique2" is an argument of > "verb1". > > Similarly, if there are more core arguments present than are > allowed by the argument structure of the verb, then parsing at > that level will stop and the additional arguments will be > available at the higher level. For example, in "verb1 verb2 > noun1 adverb1 noun2", if "verb2" is P-d, then both "noun1" and > "adverb1" are arguments of "verb2", while "noun2" must be an > argument of "verb1". Again, use of the valency terminator > "jojope" can override the default parse. >