On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Chris Capel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> More alice questions! Yay!
>
> The PEG groups {lahe dihu laha certu} as [{lahe (dihu laha)} <certu>].
> As I understand it, indictors like {la'a} do indeed attach to the word
> on their left.
Right.
> Does this mean that that sentence ought technically to
> be {lahe dihu certu laha}, or {laha lahe dihu certu}?
It depends what the intended meaning was. It could be that {la'a}
does modify {di'u}. x1 of {certu} is supposed to be a person, so
{la'e di'u} doesn't seem to make much sense there. If it was {jetnu}
instead of {certu}, the difference would be someting like:
la'a la'e di'u jetnu
"Probably that's true."
la'e di'u la'a jetnu
"It's probably that which is true."
>If my
> understanding is correct, then I don't need to change my parser to be
> less misleading. :)
The parser is doing the right thing. The sentence doesn't seem to make
sense with or without {la'a}.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
