On 12/1/2016 10:37 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
De'vID:
Megatron qam bIngDaq Optimus Prime nach chevlu'pu'bogh taptaHvIS, Megatron 'IH law' Hoch Decepticon 'IH puS. there is something which rubs me the wrong way in this sentence.. lets analyze it together..
first it says: {Megatron qam bIngDaq Optimus Prime nach chevlu'pu'bogh taptaHvIS} under the foot of megatron the head of optimus prime, which someone had separated, while he was squashing
so, we are left to wonder "who was squashing that head ?" only to read next the name of "megatron", which simultaneously is the first of the two nouns in a law'/puS construction.
Is this correct ? Can the subject (if megatron is indeed the subject of the first sentence), be at the same time the first noun of a law'/puS construction ?
There is only one sentence here. /*Megatron*/*qam bIngDaq* (locative phrase) /below Megatron's feet/ /*Optimus Prime*/*nach chevlu'pu'bogh taptaHvIS* (subordinate "while" clause containing a relative clause) /while he squashes Optimus Prime's separated head/ /*Megatron*/*'IH law' Hoch /Decepticon/ 'IH puS *(main clause) /Megatron is more beautiful than all Decepticons/ The locative phrase is attached to the relative clause, not the main clause: /*Megatron*/*qam bIngDaq /Optimus Prime/ nach chevlu'pu'bogh taptaHvIS */while he [Megatron] squashes Optimus Prime's separated head/ The second instance of /Megatron/ in the sentence is not the subject of the subordinate clause; it is only the first noun of the comparative clause. The subject of the subordinate clause is an elided *ghaH.* You have to work out from context that *ghaH* refers to Megatron (because who else would be squashing a severed head but the entity whose feet we are directed under?). -- SuStel http://trimboli.name