On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:37 AM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

The sense of distance comes, not from the number of words, but from the fact that you've got a sentence-as-object inside a relative clause before you ever get to the subject of the original verb. That's a lot of grammar to parse mentally before you find out what it is you're even talking about.

That's a fair point. In this particular instance, I didn't think it was that confusing. The object sentence in the relative clause is only one word, {ghol}, and I think the short sentences and only one noun make it easier to comprehend. But I think that's probably close to the upper limit of complexity worth putting up with (assuming this construction is grammatical at all, of course).