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Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars

From:Gary Shannon <reboot@...>
Date:Thursday, March 18, 1999, 3:49
<snip>
Basically, I thought that the reason why humans could not parse highly

convoluted word orders such as these, is that not only are there a limite=
d
number of specialized slots available, but each slot can only hold one
item at a time.  So, for example, after parsing a subject that subject
would have to be collected into a higher order slot (e.g. for a whole
sentence) before another subject could be parsed.

RPN and enter embedding word orders both suffer from problems under such
restrictions.

Greetings,
=D8rjan.


However, RPN does not require that all the arguments be put on the stack
before being resolved. You can see that 3 3 + 3 + will give the same resu=
lt
as 3 3 3 + +.  If the terms are collected as soon as possible then there
should be at most three arguments for a trivalent verb and perhaps one or
two already resolved fragments waiting below them on the stack until some
later verb resolves them as well.

--Gary.