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Modificational Clauses

Every modifier implies at least one clause, and all those implied clauses equate to simple Subject-Verb-Object sentences called modificational clauses. Examples:

In “FURUA MAKE JEFI/consumingness enlarged animatee” the clause implied by “MAKE/enlarged” is “FURUA MAKA JEFI/consumingness enlarges animatee”.

In “NAFMURUA RUNUE FURA/fearingness acceleratedly consumes” the clause implied by “RUNUE/acceleratedly” is “NAFMURUA RUNA FURUA/fearingness accelerates consumingness”.

In “PAFEA FERJURE FEJO/ precipitatedness greened vegetater” the clause implied by

“FERJURE/greened” is “PAFEA FAFJURA FEJO/precipitatedness greens vegetater”.

Eating enlarges the animal, fear speeds the eating, and rain greens the plants.

Here’s how it works.

The verb form of a modifier always forms the verb of the modificational clause. A noun form of the modified word always serves as the subject or object of the modificational clause, depending on the case of the modifier: an accusative modifier uses a noun form of the modified word as the object of its modificational clause, and a nominative modifier uses a noun form of the modified word as the subject of its modificational clause. The remaining word of a modificational clause is provided by either a noun form of a modifier of the modifier, or else by the implied noun “NANTATI/something” if the modifier forming the clause’s verb has no modifiers of its own. If a modifier has more than one modifier of its own, it forms a separate modificational clause using each of them.

In the three examples provided above, each of the cited clause forming modifiers is itself modified by a noun modifier, and the case is always accusative, so the word order even stays the same. The only modifications necessary to derive the clauses are to change the modifiers into their verb forms and, in the single case of the adverb, to convert the modified sentence verb into a noun so it can serve as a clause object.

However, each of those three modifiers (in this example all nouns) implies a modificational clause of its own, because every modifier implies a modificational clause.

FURUA MAKEA MAKI FURA NANTATI

Here the modifier (FURUA) is nominative, so the order in the clause is reversed from that in the sentence and a noun form of the modified word will provide the subject of the modificational clause. Since MAKE is accusative, either MAKEA or MAKI would serve, but in fact MAKI makes more sense. FURUA has no modifier of its own to serve as the subject. While we know the animal is eating a rain greened plant, that fact is not available to this clause, so we just use NANTATI as the object. Enlargee eats something.

The next modifier also makes a clause from a nominative modifier of an accusative word. The only difference is that this word is an adverb.

NAFMURUA RUNUEA RUNI NAFMURA NANTATI

Acceleratee fears something.

And the remaining modifier follows the familiar pattern for nominative modifiers.

PAFEA FERJUREA NANTATI PAFA FAFJURI

something precipitates greenedness

Now we have the entire paragraph of little three word sentences implied by the example sentence.

Enlargee consumes something.

Consumingness enlarges animatee.

Acceleratee fears something.

Fearingness accelerates consumingness.

Something precipitates greenedness.

Precipitatedness greens vegetater.

Animatee consumes vegetater

So what happens when a word has multiple modifiers? They precede what they modify as closely as possible and each form clauses.

“MAKE FAFJURE JEFI/enlarged greened animatee/big green animal “ implies two clauses:

“NANTATI MAKA JEFI/unspecifyee enlarges animatee/something enlarges an animal”

and

“NANTATI FAFJURA JEFI/unspecifyee greens animatee/something greens an animal”.

The order could be either way: the phrase could alternatively be

“FAFJURE MAKE JEFI/greened enlarged animatee/green big animal”.

So, in “MAKE FAFJURE JEFI” how do we know that MAKE doesn’t modify FAFJURE rather than JEFI?

There are two ways.

One is a simple set of rules:

--Verbs can’t modify anything.

--Adjectives can only modify nouns.

--Nouns can modify adjectives, and adverbs.

--Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

So, there is no “hot running” or “red-yellow” or “should be” or “man-child”. But there is “increasingly quickly”. If you want to JUST modify an adjective (rather than make a little sidekick sentence), use an adverb. You might say MAKUE FAFJURE JEFI/enlargedly greened animatee. Something about getting larger made the animal green. The point is, if you see a string of adjectives, they aren’t modifying each other, they’re all modifying the first noun you see. Unless one of those adjectives has a noun modifier..

Which is why you need the other way to know what modifies what: echelon prefixes.