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1. The horse raced past the barn fell.
2. The old man the boat.
3. The author wrote the novel was likely to be a best-seller.
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Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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On second read I thought a word had been dropped
1. The horse raced past the barn (and) fell.
2. The old man (and) the boat.
3. The author wrote the novel (that) was likely to be a best-seller.
In my initial parsing I didn't consider ambiguity.
2. The old man (and) the boat.
3. The author wrote the novel (that) was likely to be a best-seller.
Interesting. The usual, and final, parsings are:
1. The horse that raced past the barn fell.
2. The old that man the boat.
3. The author wrote that the novel was likely to be a best-seller.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
1. The horse raced past; the barn fell.
2. The old man (some word omitted) the boat.
3. The author wrote, "The novel was likely to be a best-seller".
2. The old that man the boat.
It took me a while before I grasped the meaning of this this final parsing.
It still looks pretty hortigraphic to me.
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