[DGD] Working with parse_string()

[Kamil N]

2009/7/24 Shentino <shentino at gmail.com>:
> More to the point however, I have often seen prepositions used to delimit
> subjects objects and all sorts of things like that.
>
> I have also never seen a noun or adjective that was also a preposition.
>
> Should we discuss how prepositions fit into this problem?  I would be
> interested in hearing what other folks have to say about it.

Believe me, I'd gladly use prepositions to delimit arguments for verbs
:) But as I'm making MUD in different language than English, its
sometimes impossible. As mentioned before, if I want to use correct
grammar, I have to parse "give" command without any preposition,
because in my language its not preposition that dictates what is given
to whom, but certain form of word. What is more, I can't even
reverse-check this word against the same word in standard form,
because it only works one way (standard form -> derivative, no
derivative -> standard way), at least not without some complex
stemming algorithm.

I think that my problem wouldn't probably exist if I could use
prepositions, especially that there are already few grammars available
in mudlibs based on DGD and they do fine (at least with parsing common
verbs).

KN