27 Comments

1. February 23rd, 2013 / 10:14 am Adam Digged—

   subject pronoun, adverb, verb (first person singular present {[simple aspect]/} indicative with an active voice), objective pronoun, adverbial infinitive, proper noun, adverb modifying a past participle modifying a noun which is being modified by the title of that noun, particle connecting a third person possessive adjective modifying and adjective modifying orphaned plural nouns conjoined by conjugations, passive participle, prepositional phrase?

2. February 23rd, 2013 / 11:53 am mimi—

   i really liked this story
   but i think the “I” in the tenth from the bottom line should be changed to “me”
   is that okay to say??

3. February 23rd, 2013 / 1:11 pm A D Jameson—

   I agree; it should be me. Or even mi.

4. February 23rd, 2013 / 10:56 pm mimi—

   what if….

5. February 24th, 2013 / 5:11 am davidmmmorton—

   This taught me to never trust a midget.

6. February 24th, 2013 / 5:12 am davidmmmorton—

   I think it should be “i”

7. February 24th, 2013 / 11:47 am mimi—

   me think it should be “me”

8. February 24th, 2013 / 12:14 pm A D Jameson—

   The pronoun is the object of let: “let me.” So I agree with let-let.

9. February 24th, 2013 / 3:28 pm deadgod—

   “[P]roper noun” is possessive. “[P]ast” participle is passive participle. Parenthetical prepositional phrase, composed of preposition and proper-noun object, not mentioned. “[P]article” is adverbial phrase (composed of three adverbs) used as conjunction. “[T]hird[-]person possessive adjective” is singular. “[O]rphaned”?? [True question.] “[P]lural nouns” joined by conjunction, not “conjugations”. “[P]assive participle” is of a phrasal verb; preposition lacks object (so no prepositional “phrase”) and is followed by adverb.

10. February 24th, 2013 / 4:18 pm A D Jameson—

    http://lime-tree.blogspot.com/2009/07/craig-dworkin-parse.html

11. February 24th, 2013 / 5:11 pm deadgod—

    Are punctuation marks considered objects of parse-imony? I think they should be, but are they?

12. February 24th, 2013 / 5:23 pm A D Jameson—

    Dworkin includes punctuation—that is to say, he describes them. See here and here>.

13. February 24th, 2013 / 6:43 pm davidmmmorton—

    It may be correct but whether it should be is another thing. I think it should be a lower case i.

14. February 24th, 2013 / 6:59 pm A D Jameson—

    On what basis? Whimsy?

15. February 24th, 2013 / 7:03 pm davidmmmorton—

    It could be whimsy. I like writers that are brave enough to be wrong. :D

16. February 24th, 2013 / 7:07 pm A D Jameson—

    I like wrongness, too, but I like the wrongness to be justifiable in terms of the piece. I think there’s a distinction between deliberate and non-deliberate errors. In this case I get the impression it’s non-deliberate, although I have also been looking for a way to justify it. I was wondering if it might be an aspect of the the narrator’s voice…

17. February 24th, 2013 / 7:13 pm davidmmmorton—

    I tried to vote this up twice.

18. February 24th, 2013 / 7:14 pm A D Jameson—

    The second click undoes the first one. Unless you create a second account…

19. February 24th, 2013 / 7:33 pm mimi—

    like this?

    The summer after my nineteenth birthday, Cedar Point paid I excellent money to wear a wig of raven tresses and full-length gown of rich blue satin and to be trailed by seven little people with names like Bashful. My friend Sara had gotten I the job.

    i would like this

20. February 24th, 2013 / 7:34 pm A D Jameson—

    Ha! That makes it sound like it’s in third person, and about a person named I.

21. February 24th, 2013 / 7:38 pm mimi—

    but no! no!
    it’s supposed to sound brave AND whimsical

22. February 24th, 2013 / 8:09 pm deadgod—

    I an I wit Jah in de garden of Babylon, I an I usin de linguistic mediation.

23. February 24th, 2013 / 8:18 pm deadgod—

    Yes, I was responding to the earlier link, which makes it look like punctuation is part of what’s ‘parsed’. The marks are not ekt-chew-uh-leh examples of a ‘part’ (L pars, partis) of speech, but when one diagrams a sentence, one does write down the punctuation on the diagram. So those notations are “parsed”, in the sense of legibly surviving the parsing process? or Dworkin added them to his description of each written sign/group of signs because he could see them?

24. February 24th, 2013 / 8:21 pm mimi—

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5rLz5AZBIA

25. February 25th, 2013 / 12:45 am A D Jameson—

    I loved diagramming sentences in grade school, but will confess I don’t know much about the history of the practice. I imagine Dworkin included the punctuation because otherwise it wouldn’t have been clear where sentences ended? Or maybe he was parsing the source text according to his own special parsing method. I read some of Parse for a seminar I took last year, but haven’t looked into exactly what decisions he made in creating it, and haven’t thought much, either, about the consequences of those decisions, though it does seem an interesting line of thinking. Full stop.

26. February 25th, 2013 / 12:48 am A D Jameson—

    Timbaland knows the way to reach the top of the charts.

27. March 3rd, 2013 / 12:15 pm Adam Digged—

    i hope no one thought i was attempting to be a grammar national socialist. just practicing.