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F. Trains

An isolated sequence, such as (+ */) , which the “normal” parsing rules do not resolve to a single part of speech is called a train, and may be further resolved as described below.

A train of two or three verbs produces a verb and (by repeated resolution), a verb train of any length also produces a verb. For example, the trains +-*% and +-*%^ are equivalent to +(-*%) and +-(*%^). The production is defined by the following diagrams:
         HOOK                FORK             CAPPED FORK

      g       g           g        g            g     g
     / \     / \         / \      / \           |     |
    y   h   x   h       f   h    f   h          h     h
        |       |       |   |   / \ / \         |    / \
        y       y       y   y   x y x y         y   x   y
For example, 5(+*-)3 is (5+3)*(5-3). If f is a cap ([:) the capped branch simplifies the forks to g h y and g x h y . The train N g h (a noun followed by two verbs) is equivalent to N"_ g h . The ranks of the hook and fork are infinite.

A two-element train of a conjunction with a noun or a verb produces an adverb. For example, &.> produces an adverb that might be called “each”, and the adverb bc=:<" might be called “box cells” because, for example, 0 bc x would box the atoms of x .

Finally, a train of two adverbs produces an adverb, and (by implication) a train of any number of adverbs also produces an adverb. For example, /\ is the adverb “insert scan”, and ~/~ is the “commuted table”. For example: 
   is=:/\
   + is 1 2 3 4 5
1 3 6 10 15
   
   ct=: ~/~
   - ct 1 2 3
 0  1 2
_1  0 1
_2 _1 0

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