What?

Modena removes ambiguity as to what is the object complement in a sentence by using the construction “ko … ok”.

For example:

“I like apples”

in English translates to

“jo sarang ko pome ok”

in Modena.

• jo: I
• sarang: like
• pome: apples

Complex sentences

Some sentences can be really hard to parse in english. For example:

“I like the blue car that you gifted me the day before we met your parents.”

In Modena, you can use two things:

• linkers: “la” instead of “ok” to make the object complement the subject of the next part of the sentence.
• pointers: to refer to complements of previous sentences, you can use label and point to them.

So using pointers you could deconstruct the previous sentence as:

• the day before we met your parents you gifted me a blue car
• I like this blue car

or using linkers: (direct voice?)

• I like the blue car
• the blue car was a gift
• the gift happened the day before we met your parents

Let’s introduce the vocabulary first:

• I: jo
• to like: sarang
• blue: azul
• car: tram
• to gift: cado

then in Modena the previous examples translate to:

• pointers:
• linkers: jo sarang ko tram azul la cado la …