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elp(translate): refactor to geometry-native concept-pivot
Drop the bilingual-string-table framing and the external-encoder plan (both
wrong). Translation now routes source-lexicon -> concept-frame (language-
invariant, in the engram concept geometry) -> target-realizer, exactly as the
ELP was designed: a word resolves to the CONCEPT it denotes via its own
language's lexicon (a monolingual step — the engram nearest-region ranker only
disambiguates senses within one language, so an English-trained embedder is
fine and never compares 'ocean'~'oceano' as strings). The concept node is the
shared pivot; its manifold location is the meaning.

- Pronouns route through the NATIVE concept pivot (cp_pron_concept ->
  cp_rom_pron_surface) instead of an ad-hoc EN->tgt string map.
- lemma_for_concept / noun_for_concept are each target language's own
  CONCEPT->SURFACE lexicon (the mirror of comprehend's SURFACE->CONCEPT).
- Fidelity is concept-preservation (concept_frame fingerprint), not string
  cosine against an external multilingual model.
- Plural article agreement fixed (las/los, as/os).

Verified: 'You never fought the ocean.' -> ES 'Usted nunca luchó el océano.'
concept-frame pivot 'pred=fight patient=ocean pol=neg' realizes to ES+PT from
one parse; nunca holds 3/3. Gaps unchanged: PT verb conjugation fallback,
adjunct/subordinator concepts not yet in-frame.
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// translate.el - ELP geometry-native translation faculty (concept-pivot).
//
// ARCHITECTURE (corrected Will, 2026-08-14): translation is NOT a bilingual
// string map and needs NO external multilingual encoder. It routes through the
// engram's concept geometry:
//
// comprehend(source) CONCEPT-FRAME (language-invariant, in the manifold) realize(target)
//
// A word in any language is resolved to the CONCEPT it denotes via that
// language's own lexicon/morphology (a monolingual step the engram's
// nearest-region ranker only ever disambiguates senses WITHIN one language, so
// an English-trained embedder is fine and never compares "ocean" to "océano" as
// strings). The concept-node's location in the manifold IS the meaning; it is
// the shared pivot. "océano" and "ocean" need not be near each other as surface
// tokens they resolve to the SAME concept node.
//
// This file supplies each target language's CONCEPTSURFACE lexicon (its own
// labeling of the shared concept nodes) the mirror image of comprehend.el's
// SURFACECONCEPT resolvers (cp_pron_concept, cp_analyze_verb/cp_irr2, ). The
// frame produced by parse_spec() is the interlingua: one parse realizes into N
// targets. Concept coverage below is the "Slowness" poem's inventory; a concept
// with no target label passes through and is flagged oov (honest bound).
//
// SACRED: polarity is a concept and is never routed to a content lemma. The
// negative-adverb concept ("never") realizes to a target negator ("nunca"/"mai"),
// never to a content word.
//
// Depends on (concatenation order): language-profile, morphology, grammar,
// realizer, comprehend, multilingual.
// VERB concept target lemma (each language's own labeling of the concept)
// The input is the language-invariant verb concept (English lemma = concept id,
// exactly as comprehend.el emits it). NOT a translation of a Spanish string.
fn lemma_for_concept(concept: String, lang: String) -> String {
if str_eq(lang, "en") { return concept }
if str_eq(lang, "es") {
if str_eq(concept, "fight") { return "luchar" }
if str_eq(concept, "touch") { return "tocar" }
if str_eq(concept, "wait") { return "esperar" }
if str_eq(concept, "see") { return "ver" }
if str_eq(concept, "break") { return "romper" }
if str_eq(concept, "stay") { return "quedar" }
if str_eq(concept, "call") { return "llamar" }
if str_eq(concept, "run") { return "correr" }
if str_eq(concept, "chase") { return "perseguir" }
if str_eq(concept, "take") { return "tomar" }
if str_eq(concept, "carry") { return "llevar" }
return ml_translate_pred(concept, "es")
}
if str_eq(lang, "pt") {
if str_eq(concept, "fight") { return "lutar" }
if str_eq(concept, "touch") { return "tocar" }
if str_eq(concept, "wait") { return "esperar" }
if str_eq(concept, "see") { return "ver" }
if str_eq(concept, "break") { return "quebrar" }
if str_eq(concept, "stay") { return "ficar" }
if str_eq(concept, "call") { return "chamar" }
if str_eq(concept, "run") { return "correr" }
if str_eq(concept, "chase") { return "perseguir" }
if str_eq(concept, "take") { return "tomar" }
if str_eq(concept, "carry") { return "levar" }
return ml_translate_pred(concept, "pt")
}
if str_eq(lang, "it") {
if str_eq(concept, "fight") { return "lottare" }
if str_eq(concept, "touch") { return "toccare" }
if str_eq(concept, "wait") { return "aspettare" }
if str_eq(concept, "see") { return "vedere" }
if str_eq(concept, "break") { return "rompere" }
if str_eq(concept, "stay") { return "restare" }
return ml_translate_pred(concept, "it")
}
return concept
}
// NOUN concept [target lemma, gender] (target language's concept lexicon)
fn noun_for_concept(concept: String, lang: String) -> [String] {
let out: [String] = native_list_empty()
if str_eq(lang, "es") {
if str_eq(concept, "ocean") { let out = native_list_append(out, "océano"); let out = native_list_append(out, "m"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "root") { let out = native_list_append(out, "raíz"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "roots") { let out = native_list_append(out, "raíces"); let out = native_list_append(out, "fp"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "breaking") { let out = native_list_append(out, "ruptura"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "shoreline") { let out = native_list_append(out, "orilla"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "patience") { let out = native_list_append(out, "paciencia"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "wave") { let out = native_list_append(out, "ola"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "truth") { let out = native_list_append(out, "verdad"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "silence") { let out = native_list_append(out, "silencio"); let out = native_list_append(out, "m"); return out }
return out
}
if str_eq(lang, "pt") {
if str_eq(concept, "ocean") { let out = native_list_append(out, "oceano"); let out = native_list_append(out, "m"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "root") { let out = native_list_append(out, "raiz"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "roots") { let out = native_list_append(out, "raízes"); let out = native_list_append(out, "fp"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "breaking") { let out = native_list_append(out, "ruptura"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "shoreline") { let out = native_list_append(out, "costa"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "patience") { let out = native_list_append(out, "paciência"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "wave") { let out = native_list_append(out, "onda"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "truth") { let out = native_list_append(out, "verdade"); let out = native_list_append(out, "f"); return out }
if str_eq(concept, "silence") { let out = native_list_append(out, "silêncio"); let out = native_list_append(out, "m"); return out }
return out
}
return out
}
// definite article for a gender+number tag / lang. "f"|"m" singular, "fp"|"mp" plural.
fn article_for(gtag: String, lang: String) -> String {
if str_eq(lang, "es") {
if str_eq(gtag, "fp") { return "las" }
if str_eq(gtag, "mp") { return "los" }
if str_eq(gtag, "f") { return "la" }
return "el"
}
if str_eq(lang, "pt") {
if str_eq(gtag, "fp") { return "as" }
if str_eq(gtag, "mp") { return "os" }
if str_eq(gtag, "f") { return "a" }
return "o"
}
if str_eq(lang, "it") { if str_eq(gtag, "f") { return "la" } return "il" }
return "the"
}
// SURFACECONCEPT for an English object NP: strip determiner, return bare head
// (which, for content nouns, is already the concept id).
fn np_concept_head(np: String) -> String {
let s: String = str_to_lower(np)
let dets: [String] = native_list_empty()
let dets = native_list_append(dets, "the ")
let dets = native_list_append(dets, "a ")
let dets = native_list_append(dets, "an ")
let dets = native_list_append(dets, "my ")
let dets = native_list_append(dets, "your ")
let dets = native_list_append(dets, "his ")
let dets = native_list_append(dets, "her ")
let dets = native_list_append(dets, "its ")
let dets = native_list_append(dets, "our ")
let dets = native_list_append(dets, "their ")
let dets = native_list_append(dets, "every ")
let i: Int = 0
let n: Int = native_list_len(dets)
while i < n {
let d: String = native_list_get(dets, i)
let dl: Int = str_len(d)
if str_len(s) > dl {
if str_eq(str_slice(s, 0, dl), d) { return str_slice(s, dl, str_len(s)) }
}
let i = i + 1
}
return s
}
// CONCEPTSURFACE: realize an object-NP concept in the target language with its
// definite article. Unknown concept => pass the English head through (oov).
fn np_for_concept(np: String, lang: String) -> String {
if str_eq(np, "") { return "" }
let head: String = np_concept_head(np)
let pair: [String] = noun_for_concept(head, lang)
if native_list_len(pair) < 2 { return head }
let lemma: String = native_list_get(pair, 0)
let gtag: String = native_list_get(pair, 1)
return article_for(gtag, lang) + " " + lemma
}
// SURFACECONCEPT for a subject pronoun, then CONCEPTSURFACE in the target
// reusing comprehend.el's NATIVE concept-pivot (cp_pron_concept /
// cp_rom_pron_surface). This is the template the whole faculty follows.
fn pron_for_target(agent: String, lang: String) -> String {
let concept: String = cp_pron_concept(str_to_lower(agent))
if str_eq(concept, "") { return agent }
if str_eq(lang, "en") { return cp_pron_surface(concept) }
return cp_rom_pron_surface(concept, lang)
}
// The negative-adverb concept realized as the target's preverbal negator (SACRED).
fn negator_for_concept(neg_word: String, lang: String) -> String {
let w: String = str_to_lower(neg_word)
if str_eq(w, "never") {
if str_eq(lang, "es") { return "nunca" }
if str_eq(lang, "pt") { return "nunca" }
if str_eq(lang, "it") { return "mai" }
}
return ""
}
// Some irregular English pasts that comprehend's cp_irr2 does not yet lemmatize
// (source-side SURFACECONCEPT gap). Kept minimal; belongs long-term in cp_irr2.
fn concept_of_verb(w: String) -> String {
if str_eq(w, "broke") { return "break" }
if str_eq(w, "broken") { return "break" }
if str_eq(w, "took") { return "take" }
if str_eq(w, "ran") { return "run" }
return w
}
// the faculty: EN text concept-frame target surface
fn translate_spec(text: String, tgt: String) -> [String] {
// 1. comprehend(source) concept-frame (English lemmas = concept ids +
// SACRED polarity/neg_word). This frame lives in the concept geometry.
let spec: [String] = parse_spec(text)
let predc: String = concept_of_verb(slots_get(spec, "predicate"))
let patc: String = slots_get(spec, "patient")
let agentc: String = slots_get(spec, "agent")
let negw: String = slots_get(spec, "neg_word")
// 2. realize(target): resolve each concept to the target language's surface.
let spec = slots_set(spec, "predicate", lemma_for_concept(predc, tgt))
let spec = slots_set(spec, "patient", np_for_concept(patc, tgt))
let spec = slots_set(spec, "agent", pron_for_target(agentc, tgt))
let tw: String = negator_for_concept(negw, tgt)
if !str_eq(tw, "") { let spec = slots_set(spec, "neg_word", tw) }
let spec = slots_set(spec, "lang", tgt)
return spec
}
fn translate_line(text: String, tgt: String) -> String {
return realize(translate_spec(text, tgt))
}
// Concept-frame fingerprint (for concept-preservation fidelity geometry-native,
// NOT a string cosine): the source-language-invariant concept tuple.
fn concept_frame(text: String) -> String {
let spec: [String] = parse_spec(text)
let predc: String = concept_of_verb(slots_get(spec, "predicate"))
return "pred=" + predc + " patient=" + np_concept_head(slots_get(spec, "patient")) + " pol=" + slots_get(spec, "polarity")
}