there's this thing in constructing dependency trees of sentences I've been calling the pajama problem
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"I shot a robber in my house" could encode which of the two parties, and one or both, was in the house
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"I [sbj] house in robber [obj] shoot [past]" = me in house robber outside, vs "I [sbj] robber [obj] house in shoot [past]" or "(I [subj] robber [obj]) house in shoot [past]"
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incidentally the original intent of parens was to denote whole clauses used as modifiers and to group modifiers themselves
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I was gonna commasep but then someone pointed out "oh neat how would you do 'or'?" so god help me I might use & and |
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