A Two-Dimensional Sentence Structure -Correction

--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:

> From: Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
>
> > From: Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
>
> > ...
> > > <http://fiziwig.com/chatbot/baby_walk.gif>
> >
> > I'm not sure what the purpose of the pronoun
> squares
> > is,
> > except to fully represent the actual sounds of the
> English
> > sentence and not just its ideas.  In a native text in
> this
> > kind of
> > graph language, you could leave the pronouns out
> > and just draw arrows direct from each verb to the
> nouns
> > filling its argument slots.
> >
> > --
> > Jim Henry
>
> Good point. Now that you mention it, I'm not sure why I
> did leave the pronoun in there. It doesn't really
> provide any new information, and really only makes sense by
> reference back to the English equivalent.
misclicked and sent this before it was done.

I meant to mention that after your post I re-drew the graph without either of
the two pronouns: <http://fiziwig.com/chatbot/baby_walk_1.gif>

--gary