See the following:f=:2&^~ f ┌───────┬─┐ │┌─┬─┬─┐│~│ ││2│&│^││ │ │└─┴─┴─┘│ │ └───────┴─┘ f 3 1.15792e77 g=:2&(^~) g ┌─┬─┬─────┐ │2│&│┌─┬─┐│ │ │ ││^│~││ │ │ │└─┴─┘│ └─┴─┴─────┘ g 3 9 As you can see, the parser does the adverb before the conjunction, with no parenthesis, in the first case. Yet the parse table has the adverb before the conjn. Any explanations?