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From: Elizabeth Churchett <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] SEEING SENTENCES
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 22:10:59 -0500
References: <002e01c37353$e792e730$4101a8c0@RichardA31>


Richard,

Couldn't what you wish be accomplished with the following Sentence?

Midwife: [W] assisted in the birth of <[R:Child-DL]> <[R:Child-LD]> <[R:Child-Flower]>

--Elizabeth
Austin, Texas


Richard Damon wrote:

>The way around repetitive default sentences is to make several different
>"roles" to represent a given Role in the event. This works best for the
>Principal roles as the witnesses can refer back to [P1] (or [P1] <and [P2]>)
>without needing a bunch conditionals to refer to all the possibilities.Thus
>you could have for the birth tag:
>
>Child-DL: [P] was born <[D]> <[L]>
>Child-LD: [P] was born <[L]> <[D]>
>Child-Flower: [P] came into the world <[D]> <[L}>
>
>What would make this nicer is if a give Sentence variable could refer to
>multiple roles at once like:
>
>Midwife: [W] assisted in the birth of [R:Child-DL|Child-LD|Child-Flower]
>(in this case [P] would work, but for other tags (especially in the other
>group) you may want to vary the witness sentence based on the role of the
>principal.
>
>Richard Damon
>
>


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