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

--- Caleb Hines <cph9fa@...> wrote:

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> (I) Extraneous words
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> <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