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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A> (Chris Gray)</LI>
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:What with the recent discussion of parsers and methods of parsing
:commands, and old entry from my to-do list popped up:
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: Support for prepositions such as "under", "on top of", "behind" etc.
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:Anyone got any ideas for supporting/parsing a command like:
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: hide under the desk
Well, currently I would fake it by having an object in the room with
internal name "desk;under,the". The command would then work, but my
stomach would hurt.
: put the rock under the rug behind the pillar
Well, unlike in English, it probably isn't ambiguous in most MUDs, since
'put' always takes things from your inventory and puts them somewhere
else, so it is the rug that is behind the pillar.
I think, in general, you would have to add prepositional phrases to your
parser, and somehow convert them to an internal form that the semantic
components could use to guide the search for the objects. (Arm waving!)
*Then* you have to decide how to handle situations where a preposition
could start a prepositional phrase for the direct object, or whether it
is the preposition associated with the verb which separates the direct
object from the indirect object for that verb. Fun, fun!
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Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00332" HREF="msg00332.html">Random plotlines</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Thu 08 May 1997, 04:27 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00350" HREF="msg00350.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Random plotlines</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 10 May 1997, 02:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00331" HREF="msg00331.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Comments on the DB layer</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Wed 07 May 1997, 21:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00347" HREF="msg00347.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Comments on the DB layer</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 10 May 1997, 00:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00330" HREF="msg00330.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Wed 07 May 1997, 21:41 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00327" HREF="msg00327.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Comments on the DB layer</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Wed 07 May 1997, 12:31 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00359" HREF="msg00359.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Comments on the DB layer</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 10 May 1997, 20:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00419" HREF="msg00419.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Comments on the DB layer</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Tue 13 May 1997, 10:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00608" HREF="msg00608.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Comments on the DB layer</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Tue 20 May 1997, 02:32 GMT
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