test language - advice is welcome
From: | Rodlox R <rodlox@...> |
Date: | Saturday, March 26, 2005, 3:48 |
This sketchlang is to insure that I understand the explanations as were
provided:
D-3
used by a hunter-gatherer people, may or may not be human.
Classes of Nouns:
(a) Being -- 1st to be dropped
(b) Prey -- 2nd to be dropped; only drop if a sentence has no Being
(c) Landscape -- 3rd to be dropped; dropping mostly with weather and
tectonics, etc
(d) Predator -- *never* drop
Examples:
I | tiger-sighted | lawn-location. Fled-across | swift.
I saw a tiger on the lawn. Ran fast away across.
I saw a tiger on the (same)* lawn with me. I ran away across the lawn.
* = an assumption, since there is only one location mentioned.
Gnu | river-crossed | -location**.
The Gnu crossed the river.
** = the river does not repeat
but if it hadnt prefixed crossed, then
it would prefix location.
Location is always placed last; it denotes the setting.
Principal {I, Gnu} always first; active/passive dont matter, at least not
in terms of placement.
Sensed hear, felt, seen, etc.
(action)(?) crossed, etc.
Reaction fled, etc.
1) P
2) S
3) A/R
4) ?
5) L