Editing 2793: Garden Path Sentence
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A mostly similar, but slightly more comical interpretation (though less likely for a newspaper headline) can be: | A mostly similar, but slightly more comical interpretation (though less likely for a newspaper headline) can be: | ||
β | After (a) bird strikes, (the) judge ... (as above) (is) overturned, but rights and lands safely. In this case, the judge is standing, a bird strikes her and she is overturned, but she manages to right | + | After (a) bird strikes, (the) judge ... (as above) (is) overturned, but rights and lands safely. In this case, the judge is standing, a bird strikes her and she is overturned, but she manages to right himself and land safely on the ground (not banging her head, for instance). |
Another way of diagramming this (where noun phrases are in parenthesis and verbal clauses in brackets) would be: | Another way of diagramming this (where noun phrases are in parenthesis and verbal clauses in brackets) would be: | ||
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* The plural of "land", a common issue in legal proceedings | * The plural of "land", a common issue in legal proceedings | ||
β | The title text is also an example of a garden path sentence. The meaning is probably the following: Arboretum owner, [who was] denied [legal] standing in [the] garden-path [law]suit on grounds (the reason) [that the garden] grounds [are] appealing, [is] appealing [the ruling]. Alternatively: Arboretum owner, [who was] denied [legal] standing in [the] garden-path [law]suit on grounds (reasoning) grounds (why it was denied), [is] appealing appealing [the ruling]. | + | The title text is also an example of a garden path sentence. The meaning is probably the following: Arboretum owner, [who was] denied [legal] standing in [the] garden-path [law]suit on grounds (the reason) [that the garden] grounds [are] appealing, [is] appealing [the ruling]. Alternatively: Arboretum owner, [who was] denied [legal] standing in [the] garden-path [law]suit on grounds (reasoning) grounds (why it was denied), [is] appealing appealing [the ruling]. |
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