<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: Re: Prepositions and Parsing... --> <!--X-From-R13: E001U[GNabin.jevtug.rqh --> <!--X-Date: from fabius.globecomm.net [207.51.48.6] by in4.ibm.net id 864498414.16468-1 Sat May 24 18:26:54 1997 CUT --> <!--X-Message-Id: 01IJ91OMRR1U90O3FL#nova,wright.edu --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, Re: Prepositions and Parsing...</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:S001GMU#nova,wright.edu"> </head> <body background="/backgrounds/paperback.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#006000"> <font size="+4" color="#804040"> <strong><em>MUD-Dev<br>mailing list archive</em></strong> </font> <br> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] <br clear=all><hr> <!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> Date: [ <a href="msg00732.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00734.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00673.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00771.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00733">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00733">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00733">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>Re: Prepositions and Parsing...</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#null,net">mud-dev#null,net</A></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: Prepositions and Parsing...</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:S001GMU#nova,wright.edu">S001GMU#nova,wright.edu</A></LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Sat, 24 May 1997 14:25:59 -0500 (EST)</LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 22:21:39 +0000 (PST8PDT) From: cg#ami-cg,graysage.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Gray) >[Greg:] > >:[many arguments on how to clarify a prepositional statement] >: >:A thought I had... >: >:parse each statement into a default interpretation. if the players wish to >:override that, they can use parentheses. For example: >: >:>put the book on the rug behind the pillar. >: >:Default parsing: >: >:put (the book) on (the rug behind the pillar). >: >:the player could, however, explicitly override that with: >: >:>put (the book on the rug) behind (the pillar) >: >:or whatever. > >Hmmm. Intriguing. Not really all that hard - if the paren's don't match >up, you just complain and abandon the command. It's a bit unnatural, but >that doesn't really bother me that much. Well, in order to get away from requiring proper, natural language usage on the players part, you'd have to substitute something... :) You may even be able to build some intelligence into the paren parser and have it try to match the paren's (maybe with a prompt to the player asking if <blah> was what they really meant... but that gets back to nested prompts... (shrug)). That and the parser could be built to not always need some of the parens.. something like.. >put <object-specifier> <preposition> <object-specifier> with the ability to nest an (<o-s> <p> <o-s>) as an <object-specifier>. pretty simple, and not all that far fetched for a newbie to learn. -Greg </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00732.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00734.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00673.html">Prepositions and Parsing...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00771.html">Re: Prepositions and Parsing...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#00733"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#00733"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> <ul><li>Thread context: <BLOCKQUOTE><UL> <LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <LI><strong><A NAME="01009" HREF="msg01009.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...</A></strong>, Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Sun 01 Jun 1997, 17:59 GMT </LI> </ul> </ul> <LI><strong><A NAME="00853" HREF="msg00853.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...</A></strong>, clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 00:38 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00889" HREF="msg00889.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...</A></strong>, Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#srce,hr">silovic#srce,hr</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 17:26 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00673" HREF="msg00673.html">Prepositions and Parsing...</A></strong>, S001GMU <a href="mailto:S001GMU#nova,wright.edu">S001GMU#nova,wright.edu</a>, Thu 22 May 1997, 01:04 GMT <UL> <li><Possible follow-up(s)><br> <LI><strong><A NAME="00733" HREF="msg00733.html">Re: Prepositions and Parsing...</A></strong>, S001GMU <a href="mailto:S001GMU#nova,wright.edu">S001GMU#nova,wright.edu</a>, Sun 25 May 1997, 01:26 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00771" HREF="msg00771.html">Re: Prepositions and Parsing...</A></strong>, S001GMU <a href="mailto:S001GMU#nova,wright.edu">S001GMU#nova,wright.edu</a>, Sun 25 May 1997, 15:30 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00631" HREF="msg00631.html">DB lock and MT models</A></strong>, clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 21 May 1997, 00:30 GMT <LI><strong><A NAME="00626" HREF="msg00626.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>, Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 20 May 1997, 21:47 GMT <LI><strong><A NAME="00605" HREF="msg00605.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>, Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 20 May 1997, 02:17 GMT </LI> </UL></BLOCKQUOTE> </ul> <hr> <center> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] </center> <hr> </body> </html>