<div dir="ltr">Hi Paul,<div><br></div><div>Your subject line sentence is an example of The Xer the Yer construction, but your</div><div>examples 2-4 aren't, so there's at least two different things going on here. On</div><div>"The Xer the Yer" (which is far from trivial) see: </div><div><br></div><div><div>Charles J. Fillmore, Russell R. Lee-Goldman, and</div><div>Russell Rhodes. 2012. “The FrameNet</div><div>Constructicon” Boas, H.C. and Sag, I.A. (Eds.)</div><div>Sign-based Construction Grammar, CSLI</div><div>Publications.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Emily</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Paul Haley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@haleyai.com" target="_blank">paul@haleyai.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Greetings,<br> <br> I've come across many dozens of sentences, such as the subject sentence (which is simplified from the original) which do not parse using the on-line Logon demo.<br> <br> Am I missing something obvious? It looks like an easy sentence. (If you're interested, I have scores.)<br> <br> Thanks,<br> Paul<br> <br> P.S. Here's a few others, FYI:<br> <ol> <li>The greater the intensity of the sunlight, the more energy the sunlight transfers to that place in a given time.<br> </li> <li>Molecules are spaced farthest apart in a gas.</li> <li>The molecules of hot air are farther apart than the molecules of cold air.</li> <li>The molecules of cold water are closer together than the molecules of hot water.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> </font></span></li><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> </font></span></ol><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> <pre cols="72">-- Paul Haley Automata, Inc. <a href="mailto:paul@haleyai.com" target="_blank">paul@haleyai.com</a> (412) 716-6420 mobile</pre> </font></span></div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Emily M. Bender<br>Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a><br></div></div> </div>