JARRAPUA a COMMON-SPEECH
Basic Sentence Structure
JARRAPUA sentences always have the basic structure: (Subject) Verb (Object)
Examples:
JEFI FURA FEJO=animatee consumes vegetater=An animal eats a plant
KUMUA FERA PARO= compoundingness warms understander=Fire warms you
RERO RAPA JAR(E)RAPUA=retroflexer speaks share(ed) speakingness=Self speaks common speech
As the parenthesis in “(Subject) Verb (Object)” indicate, both subject and object may not always be present. In the special cases of imperatives and intransitive sentences the subject or object (or both) may be elided, but even then there is an implied subject and/or object.
Imperatives. If the subject is omitted, then the sentences is an imperative, a command, and the verb takes no inflecting suffix. In an imperative the assumed subject is PARO =understander=you.
Example:
NUT TATI!
Get indicate!
Take that/take it!
In an imperative, even the object may be omitted.
Example:
RUN(UE)JUT!
Accelerate(edly) advance!
Run!/Scram!
Non Transitives. If the object is omitted then the verb is necessarily being used in the intransitive or self referential sense. In an intransitive sentence the assumed object is RERO=retroflexer=self.
Example:
RERO RUN(UE)JUTA
Retroflexer accelerate(edly) advances.
I run
What is implied is “I acceleratedly advance (myself)”.
Modifier Syntax. Modifiers precede what they modify as closely as possible.
Example:
MAKE JEFI RUNUE FURA FERJURE FEJO
Enlarged animatee acceleratedly consumes greened vegetater
A big animal quickly eats a green plant.
Since modifiers precede what they modify as closely as possible, we know, for example, that FERJURE modifies FEJO rather than JEFI.
Modifiers can also have modifiers of their own. Example:
FURUA MAKE JEFI NAFMURUA RUNUE FURA PAFEA FERJURE FEJO
Consumingness enlarged animate fearingness acceleratedly consumes precipitatedness greened vegetater
An eatingness enlarged animal fear quickenedly eats a rain greened plant.
The noun FURUA modifies the adjective MAKE, the noun NAFMURUA modifies the adverb RUNUE, and the noun PAFEA modifies the adjective FERJURE. For purposes of the current topic just note that again the modifier precedes what it modifies as closely as possible. To better understand how modifiers work, we must delve into the topic of clauses.