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Nick:
> (1) The broda severally did brode:
>
> genai piro loi broda cu brode gi pisu'o loi broda cu brode
>
> (2) The broda together did brode:
>
> piro loi broda cu brode
>
> (3) brode is an emergent property of broda
>
> ge piro loi broda cu brode ginai pida'a loi broda cu brode
> (3a) piro po'o loi broda cu brode
>
> So. The quartet sings (a la lojbanmass):
>
> pisu'o le vomei cu sanga
>
> (sometimes the soprano, sometimes the bass)
>
> The quartet sings all together:
>
> piro le vomei cu sanga
>
> (but also pisu'o le vomei cu sanga, because each member of the quartet
> also sings)
>
> The quartet sings four-part harmonies (emergent property!)
>
> piro po'o le vomei cu vonsarxysanga
>
> (because no subgroup of the quartet is singing four-part harmonies.)
>
> Damn I'm good..
I'm sure you're on the right track, but I still haven't grocked
what piro is supposed to be quantifying over. piro means
all *what* out of all *what*?
Obviously you're not quantifying over bits of the vomei, because
not every bit is singing. Nor are you quantifying over vomei
or the members of le'i vomei or the things counted by the elided
inner quantifier of {le vomei}. And in exx 1-4 the glossing
is clearly very lax.
You probably have all this straight in your mind, but I don't.
I could try to express your exx in XS4.1, if that would help,
but let me you give you a chance to explain first.
--And.