[DGD] Working with parse_string()

[Shentino]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Kamil N <kamiln at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).


What are the rules of grammar for the langage in question that you are
parsing?

My hypothesis is that it has to be simple enough for humans.


>  KN
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