Scopal hierarchy of the Ithkuil categories

=== CATEGORIES SORTED BY SEMANTIC PRECEDENCE ===

Bias
Illocution
Sanction + Validation
Mood
Case + Register
Relation
Context
Derivation: NA1, COO
Aspect_A2
Modality
Derivation: others (some VxC suffixes might have exceptional precedence rules)
Essence
Perspective (except Unbounded, which is under the scope of Configuration/Affiliation)
Valence
Version
Derivation??
Aspect_A1 / Aspect_F / Aspect_AA
Derivation??
Phase
Extension
Configuration + Affiliation
Function
Root + Stem + Pattern + Designation + SSD

# Aspect_F = Aspect on Formatives;
# Aspect_A1, Aspect_A2 = First and second Aspectual slots on Adjuncts;
# Aspect_AA = Aspectual Adjunct.


=== EVIDENCES ===

(category_applied_last → category_applied_first; ↝ indicates incertainty.)

@2.1.1.E6 /qhûl-lyai’svukšei’arpîptó’ks
          ‘...being hard to believe, after allegedly trying to go back to repeatedly inspiring fear using rag-tag groups of suspicious-looking clowns, despite resistance’
  • Bias → Case ↝ Sanction → Version → Aspect_F → Phase → Configuration-Affiliation
    → Perspective:Unbounded → Derivation
  • Version → Configuration-Affiliation

@5.0      hruštrul-lyö’ň ˉhničʰâçtàu’watkwöu​​​​​​
          ‘…despite presumably being on the verge, contrary to the allegation, of just so happening to want to succeed in maybe ordering a periodic return to the honorable practice of superlative architecture for others to follow by example.’
  • Case → Validation → Aspect_A2 ↝ Sanction → Bias → Modality → Version → Mood?
    → Phase → Aspect_A1 → Configuration-Affiliation → Root-Stem-Pattern-Designation
  • Modality → Valence

@5.10.E3  Çtar-ryo igraleiţrar eglulôn.
          If only the physician wouldn’t always eat his food in one gulp like that.
  • Illocution → Derivation:NA1₁ → Aspect_A2 → Derivation:EXT₂ → Aspect_A1

@5.10.E4  Lêr-rwia hwaixtasár öqeil.
          I’d venture to say the man won't be able to resume working anytime soon.
  • Sanction → Derivation:NA1₁ ↝ Aspect_A2 → Modality → Aspect_A1

@6.1.31.E2 Hëtiun-n ivogwařļokkai ţei.
  • Modality → Derivation₁

@6.1.31.E4 Ur-rwu ivadya âbyeil.
           The dog wanted to play some more.
  • Aspect_A2 → Modality → Aspect_A1

@Ozkavarkúi: Uns aeň-ňwa tei pšalitʰukta
             I need to stop all this right now
  • Modality → Aspect_A1 ↝ Derivation

@Ozkavarkúi: ihwaiksnaifqlarzaù
             trying to offer advice steeped in ignorance
  • Valence → Version

@Texts:      Aukkras êqutta ogvëuļa tnou’elkwa pal-lši augwaikštülnàmbu.
             ‘An imaginary representation of a nude woman in the midst of descending a staircase in a step-by-step series of tightly-integrated ambulatory bodily movements which combine into a three-dimensional wake behind her, forming a timeless, emergent whole to be considered intellectually, emotionally and aesthetically.’
  • Aspect_A2 → Aspect_A1 ↝ Phase

@Texts.Greetings: Ükhu attál în-n uhednaláň.
             I bid you greetings  and may there be peace through fellowship between us.
  • Derivation:COO₁ → Modality → Valence

@Texts.Lord: Îl-lm ¯euč’ane tehwei driocaipšé kû
             May your kingdom come to exist among us
  • Modality → Aspect_A1

@Texts.Litany: Iun-niu ti casexh.
               I intend only my existence to continue.
  • Modality → Aspect_A2 → Derivation

@Kšêlmaštöö: Eim-m eíšxhei ehikʰal èiżôřče’löe
             Maybe we should team up with them and piss away the night
  • Mood → Modality → Valence ↝ Version

@Kšêlmaštöö: öheixča’alèmtûţ ekšutùëp
as the other clowns take turns applying the gas bags one by one
  • Valence ↝ Version → Derivation

@Kšêlmaštöö: u ëikòituant
  • Aspect_AA → Derivation

@Îndarna: Wëksâň-ňša
  • Illocution → Aspect_A1 → Modality

@Uňk’àtân: e uitçeicawulorňo
  • Aspect_AA → Derivation