Terry Reedy wrote: > "Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Christopher Subich wrote: >>>"The horse raced past the barn fell." >>> >>>It's just one of many "garden path sentences," where something that >>>occurs late in the sentence needs to trigger a reparse of the entire >>>sentence. >> >>I can't parse that at all. > > Upon seeing 'fell' as the main verb, you have to reparse 'raced past the > barn' as not the predicate but as a past participle adjectival phrase, like > 'bought last year' or 'expected to win'. > > The phrase parsed as a predicate reparses as a modifier, as in this > sentence ;-)
Ah, as in "the horse that was raced past the barn fell". Got it. :-) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
