Re: A Two-Dimensional Sentence Structure

--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:

> 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.

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