Talk:Vocabulary/Parsing

verbs ranks

The concepts of verb rank, when extended to multiple verbs, runs into some issues which we might call scope issues.

The "Undefined verbs" section of this page illustrates an example of this kind of thing.

Related topics are intrinsic rank and the rank of ?..

Also, though, there's an underlying machine which has physical properties which we cannot entirely abstract away in all circumstances. (This shows up as resource limits, execution time, communication, mass storage, side effects, etc.)

Fundamentally, there's rank as used during the evaluation, and there's rank as exposed grammatically during parsing. It's all "rank" but it's not all the same rank. And, some of these distinctions have been driven by implementation limits.

Anyways... in some contexts it's worth emphasizing the distinction between internal rank and advertised rank. --Raul Miller (talk) 14:54, 6 October 2023 (UTC)