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- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:56:16 -0500
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 18:55:37 -0500 (EST)
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From: Scott Selberg <selberg@isr.umd.edu>
To: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
Hi Oliver, I agree with you that the grammer is
a bit askew in the primer but I'm not sure I
agree with your analysis.
I'm just trying to learn what RDF is, and I believe
that this sentence is steering me down the wrong road.
I feel, therefore, that it is important to resolve
the grammatical issues.
The example in question is:
The creator of http://somewhere is John Smith.
if we rewrite it as, A of B is C.
A, The creator, is the subject
'is' is the predicate or verb
(a linking verb at that)
C, John Smith, is the subjective complement
(had the verb been a transitive one,
this would be the direct object)
'of B', 'of http://somewhere', is a prepositional
phrase used as an adjective describing A
The proper graph of this sentence should look like
--is--
| |
A --is-- C A,C-----
\ / |
\ / |
created created or created
\ / |
\ / |
B B
Perhaps a better example sentence would be:
John Smith created http://somewhere.
-subject-- -verb-- --object---------
-Scott Selberg
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