Re: METAGRAM -- Pt. 2 (and triggers too)

Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote

> <Mary> John {coming{to supper, during tonight}}
> "Mary, John is coming to supper tonight."
"Mary" is not extraneous.  It informs us that Mary is
being addressed, or that what is said is being told to
Mary.
Thus: "Mary, John is coming to supper tonight."
becomes
telling( to Mary, that {coming{ who John, to supper,
during tonight}}
Or expressed in a slightly different syntax:
telling( TO.Mary, THAT.{coming{ WHO.John,
WHERETO.supper, TIME.tonight}}
Just a thought.
--gary

I had a conlang with the same kind of "framing":

PREDICATE=say
ADDRESSEE=Mary
AUTHOR=AUTHOR/NO
MESSAGE=
PREDICATE=come
DIRECTION=AUTHOR
DIRECTION=Mary
SUBJECT=John
PURPOSE=
PREDICATE=supper
SUBJECT=John
SUBJECT=Mary/NO
SUBJECT=AUTHOR/NO
TIME=night
TIME=MESSAGE*
=PURPOSE
=MESSAGE

The underlying stuff was x categories of predicates that had 64 kinds of
arguments. (Lojban has way more I think).