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lo cipni na vofli gi'e blabi
1) {gi'e} has scope over {na}
This is how the parser groups it, and it is how it should be if it is going
to be equivalent to {lo cipni cu vofli nagi'e blabi} and to {lo cipni cu
blabi gi'enai vofli} and to {lo cipni cu blabi gi'e na vofli}.
2) {su'o} has scope over {gi'e}
This is just order of appearance. CLL studiously avoids mixing
connectives and quantifiers anywhere, and also sumti connectives
with bridi-tail connectives, so there is no strict official rule about
this, but order of appearance is the rule for each of these things,
so it is the natural rule when combined also.
3) {na} has scope over {su'o}?
This is the bridi negator {na} rule, although again the book is never
explicit that it applies or how in mixed cases like this.
Now, (1), (2) and (3) cannot all be correct, because scope is
transitive. One of them has to be broken.
If we break (1), the scope is na-su'o-gi'e, and the
expansion is:
na ku su'o da poi cipni zo'u ge da vofli gi da blabi
If we break (2), the scope is gi'e-na-su'o, and the expansion
is:
ge na ku su'o da poi cipni zu'o da vofli
gi su'o de poi cipni zo'u de blabi
If we break (3), the scope is su'o-gi'e-na, (I think this is the
correct one) and the expansion is:
su'o da poi cipni zo'u ge da na vofli gi da blabi
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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