A Tour Through Pinuyo (II): Building Sentences

The subject of the sentence (nominative) is placed on the north side of the verb box.		I speak.
An example with subjunctive/imperative mood.		Let us go.
The object of the sentence (accusative) is placed on the south side of the verb box.	You read a book.	We look at the church.
What is he reading?	Hurray, God listens to me!	You have my thick book.
Indirect objects (dative) are placed on the west side of the verb.		I give to you.
We speak to God.	Who is giving you the book?	You give me your big book.
Some experience verbs do not have a subject, only an experiencer, which is put in the dative case.	God hears me. (not: God listens to me.)	We see the church. (not: We look at the church.)
The object of the referentive is placed on the east side of the verb.		We think about you.
	He speaks about a tree.	What is he talking to me about?
The object of the locative is placed in a diamond. The locative box may be placed in any suitable space, but preferably not in one of the spaces reserved for nominative, accusative, dative or referentive.		We are reading at/near you.
Locative combined with adverb. The locative is also used as temporative.		We do not work on Sundays.
		Let me read a book on Sunday.
Locative boxes may be connected to a noun directly, if it indicates the location of the thing or person rather than the location of the action.		Where are you?
An elative box is trapezoid, with the long side at the bottom. An elative box can be placed in the same location that a locative box can.		We come out of/from the church.
	Who do you come from?	Where is he coming from?
The illative/allative is formed using a trapezoid with the long side at the top.		I am going to/towards my house.
Go to God!	Whom are you going to?	I walk towards the tree.
The instrumentive is indicated by a wavy box. Its placement is identical to that of the locative box.		I write with a pencil.
Note that the placement of the genitive box in this example does not lead to ambiguities. It cannot have a referentive meaning, since it is not connected to the verb.		We look at the house with our eyes.

Assorted examples.	Give me my green book!	Let us go to church every Sunday.
Example of a combined interrogative/imperative.		To whom should the man give all our branches?
Example of a combined vocative/imperative. If the subject of the imperative is addressed, the subject may be placed in a vocative box (octagon) and in the subject location (north).		Lord, listen to my voice.