History: tense/modal is not equivalent to cu gotcha

Source of version: 2 (current)

You expect to be able to use ''pu'' in place of ''cu'' in front of a selbri to close the front sumti - right? Wrong - if it's an abstraction! ''lenu mi klama pu vajni'' is a sumti with parse: ''({le < [[ [[nu (mi {klama < [[ [[pu KU] VAU>}) KEI] vajni> KU} VAU)'' I don't. Sounds like someone mislearned that tenses mark the start of selbri. To be fair, the book says (10.1, p. 216) ''The placement of a tense construct within a Lojban bridi is easy: right before the selbri. It goes immediately after the "cu", __and can in fact always replace the "cu"__.'' Of course, it then goes on to say ''(although in very complex sentences the rules for eliding terminators may be changed as a result).''