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A parenthetical is any complete sentence inserted between any two
words of another sentence.
By "complete sentence" I mean one with an explicit illocutionary
operator, otherwise it would not be possible to tell that a new
sentence different from the current one is starting.
We haven't defined "word" other than by where we are writing spaces,
so the words we have so far are: simple-formula, unary-operator,
binary-operator, illocutionary-operator and is-called.
The precise semantic relationship between the inserted sentence and
the matrix sentence is left unspecified. Presumably the speaker has
some reason for injecting one sentence within another.