Phi pamphlets — Adverbial clauses in Phi

Say in English why you read: "I read in order to learn." The purpose trails after the deed like a cart behind a horse, and a listener who stops early misses it. Phi turns the harness around. lila mia shonela mia theo. opens with the intended outcome, and by the time the reading arrives, everyone knows what it is for. Six clause relators do this work, placing one event against another by sequence, overlap, cause, purpose, and concession, and every one of them finishes its whole frame before the main clause begins.

Manual chapter 19 owns the doctrine; this pamphlet is the practice ground. The frames have no closers, so the skill is hearing where a dependent clause ends, building frames that stand where the grammar puts them, and resisting the English reflex to let the frame trail behind.

By the end of this pamphlet, you will be able to:

Build sequence frames with pheo and phoe, each clause carrying its own tense
Use both relators over counted time to say in two days and two days ago
Hold two events in one span with whau, and choose between it and sui over a noun
Place a claimed reason with lao and an overturned expectation with shai, over a clause or a bare noun phrase
Put the purpose first with lila and keep it apart from the freedom construction
Choose between a relator inside one sentence and a discourse marker across two
Repair the postposed frames that English word order keeps suggesting

This pamphlet assumes the particle system in manual chapter 9, the sentence patterns in chapter 10, and tense from chapter 14. Chapter 19 section 4 is its home ground; the lu condition belongs to Slot 0 and the three-slots pamphlet, and the closered complement frames belong to the complementizers pamphlet.

Say what the work is for. Then begin the work.