"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Christopher Subich wrote: >> Using English, because that's the only language I'm fluent in, consider >> the sentence: >> >> "The horse raced past the barn fell." >> >> It's just one of many "garden path sentences," where something that >> occurs late in the sentence needs to trigger a reparse of the entire >> sentence. > > I can't parse that at all.
Upon seeing 'fell' as the main verb, you have to reparse 'raced past the barn' as not the predicate but as a past participle adjectival phrase, like 'bought last year' or 'expected to win'. The phrase parsed as a predicate reparses as a modifier, as in this sentence ;-) Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
