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Stevo,I have worked on several sentences, and I have come to a conclusion. I wonder what you think of it.
While working on these sentences, I used my own notation, which is graphical. It's a modification of how I depicted Latejami sentences in order to understand what links with what.
Let's assume that a sentence has four kinds of arguments: A - Agent P - Patient F - Focus V - Verb(My notation for A/P/F/V is: >- -> [] () the beginning of an arrow, the end of an arrow, a square and a circle.)
I called "V" the verb because it is often the verb, but as it can be also an adjective, as in "she is beautiful".
So, the judgement is _not_ a further argument. This is how I understand what a judgement is:
Let's analyse the sentence: "he saw her dancing" (li vidis sxin danci). V: see P: he F: (V: dance AP:) sheThe parantheses mean that the "dancing" has been added subsequently. (He saw her and so he saw the dancing.)
Without parantheses this sentence would be: "He saw the dancing she did". Slightly different example: V: see P: he F: (AP: she V:) danceThis would mean: By the way she danced, he recognized (i. e.: saw) her. (He saw a dancing and so he saw her.) Without parantheses, the sentence would mean: "He saw her while she was dancing".
Next: V: see P: he F: (V: dance AP: she) This means "He saw that she was dancing." Other examples: V: call A: we F: (V: our new friend P:) he-> We called him our new friend. (We referred to him and so we referred to our new friend.)
Without parantheses: "We referred to our new friend, that was he." V: take A: she P: (P: me V: have F:) hand -> She took me by the hand. (She took my hand, so she took me.) Without parantheses: "She took me in possession of a hand."I must still think of how this could be implemented (in order to serialize / word it).
Bye, Stefo