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Well, you can go from "The cat meowed" to "The cat the mouse feared meowed" If your claim is that nesting to arbitrary depths is not allowed, what is the ma
by zodiac 11y ago
Well, you can go from
"The cat meowed"
to
"The cat the mouse feared meowed"
If your claim is that nesting to arbitrary depths is not allowed, what is the maximum depth that is "legal"?
- xenophonf 11y agoMy guess is when the parse tree exhausts short term memory. I have no problem reading the sentence with a single nested clause ("the cat the mouse..."), but the one with a doubly nested clause is unreadable ("the dog the cat the mouse..."). Greater nesting levels might be grammatical in an abstract sense but is extremely difficult for people to understand, much like how it's possible to come up with legal C code that results in indeterminate behavior.