Roles cheat sheet

A quick look at role compounds and viewpoint. Nothing here is new: each row links to the section that teaches it. Stage: B Beginner, I Intermediate, A Advanced.

Naming a part of an event

Write a thing letter (/z/ /d/ /b/), w, a scope vowel, a part consonant, the event root, then the ending. The part consonant is the role letter the participant had in the event. -l / -m / -n mean anyone in that part; -r means this instance, from the latest matching event.

Part	Names	Example	English	Stage
z	the doer	zwuzeduyol	someone who teaches	B
d	what it acts on or makes	zwudayeber	the one seen	B
b	the extra /b/ party	zwubezuyor	the one told	B

Scope	Reach	Example	English	Stage
u	this episode	zwuzeduyol	someone who teaches	B
o	practiced role	zwozeduyol	a teacher	B
e	toward one party	gwezeduyol blalazun	is a teacher to Alazun	I
a	a type across scenes	zwazeduyol	a teacher type	I

Job	Example	English	Stage
The one, from an earlier event: -r	zazozon vehohel. zwuzehoher vowurol.	Azozon sits. The one who sat walks.	B
A noun in the stem: another x	zwuzodozexowurol veruvol.	Someone who walks dogs runs.	B
Is one who: on /ɡ/	zazozon gwuzeduyol.	Azozon is someone who teaches.	B
A practiced role: scope o	zwozeduyol veruvol.	A teacher runs.	B
Is a teacher	zazozon gwozeduyol.	Azozon is a teacher.	B
The event itself: no w	duvuvul	a fight	B
What it makes: d	dwudoguyol	something built	B
A kind of tool, place, or time: a compound with a head root	daruyoxuwal	a writing tool	I
The role you act in: on /h/	zazozon vezuyol hwozeduyol.	Azozon speaks as a teacher.	I

A role compound has one part consonant, right after its scope vowel. Its stem is an event or a state (zwuzonumul someone who is angry); zwuzuwen is not a word.

Content of the event

A part consonant can name a quality of the event, not a person in it. Pointers drop the stem.

Part	Names	Compound	Pointer	Stage
h	how, when, or where	dwuhowurol	dwuher	I
g	the state it leaves	dwuguguyol	dwuger	I
th	a reason or feeling	dwuthowurol	dwuther	I
w	how much	dwuwowurol	dwuwer	I
y	the turn that said it	dwuyowurol	dwuyer	I
x	what followed	dwuxowurol	dwuxer	I
v	the event itself	(the event noun: dowurol)	dwuver	I

Without the stem

A role pointer drops the stem. The pointer vowel picks the event by position: e the latest, a the other, o this sentence's own, u the one that left the part unsaid. -r is the participant, -l a new one of its kind, -m its part.

Job	Example	English	Stage
Whoever did the latest thing	zwuzer	they	B
The landmark a clause named: resume its noun	zazozon vuguyol aol banewul. zahelan danewur vayebel.	Azozon cooks with a knife. Ahelan sees the knife.	I
That landmark as a means: the hook's pointer	zazozon vuguyol aol banewul. zahelan vuguyol aer.	Azozon cooks with a knife. Ahelan cooks with it too.	I

Left, right, up, down

Ageben	Compass	On a face	Stage
onuhol	north	ahead	I
azuhol	south	back	I
ahol	east	right	I
ewuhol	west	left	I
unuhol	northeast	forward-right	I
anuhol	northwest	forward-left	I
ozuhol	southeast	back-right	I
azohol	southwest	back-left	I

Ageben	Use	English	Stage
abuhol	skyward, shared frame	up	I
oduhol	toward the pull, shared frame	down	I
evuhol	the vertical axis	up–down axis	I

Bare arrow words are compass headings. With mid-word th and a facing person they become that direction from the person's body. Gravity words need no facing person.

Ageben	Use	English	Stage
Bare DIR	compass / gravity	gewuhol west; gabuhol up	I
DIR th ANCHOR	that point on ANCHOR's facing rose	gewuhothawan listener-left	I
DIR + th + e + /b/	that point on the landmark's own rose	gazuhothel blohehal behind the house	I
complex /ɡ/ + /b/	region on a side of a landmark	gewuhothazozon bledalol left of the tree, from Azozon's view	I

The anchor can be uwe speaker, awa listener, a name, or a role pointer on -r. The ending applies to the anchor, not the direction.

Ageben	English	Stage
gewuhol	west (shared map)	I
gewuhothazozon	Azozon's left	I
gewuhothawan	your left (listener facing)	I
gewuhothuwen	my left (speaker facing)	I
gewuhothayan	our left (shared facing)	I
gabuhol / habuhol	gravity up	I

Ageben	English	Stage
gazuhothel blohehal	behind the house (its own back)	I
gonuhothel blohehal	in front of the house	I
gewuhothel blohehal	on the house's left	I
gewuhothazozon blohehal	left of the house, from Azozon's view	I
gewuhol blohehal	west of the house	I

Job	Example	English	Stage
Compass	yol vowurol hewuhol.	Walk west.	I
Azozon's left	yol vowurol hewuhothazozon.	Walk left. (Azozon's left)	I
Your left	yol vowurol zawan hewuhothawan.	You, walk left. (your left)	I
Their left	zazozon vowurol. zalazun vehohel hewuhothazozor.	Azozon walks. Alazun sits on their left.	I
Up	yol vowurol habuhol.	Walk up.	I
Under	zodozel vezuvel hoduhol bledalol.	The dog sleeps under the tree.	I
Above	zebezel vehohel gabuhol blodozel.	A bird sits above the dog.	I
Left of a landmark	zanal gewuhothazozon bledalol.	The book is left of the tree, from Azozon's view.	I
Behind	zodozel vehohel gazuhothel blohehal.	The dog sits behind the house.	I

Don't mix up

This	vs	That
zwuzeduyol someone who teaches (any one who does it)		zwozeduyol a teacher (a practiced role)
dwuhowurol a way of walking (a quality of the event)		dwuzowurol someone who walks (a participant)
zwuzeduyor the one teaching (this instance)		gwuzeduyol is one who teaches (a label)
daruyoxuwal a writing tool (a compound)		aol using (a hook on the clause)
gewuhol west (compass)		gewuhothazozon Azozon's left (a face)
gewuhothazozon bledalol left of the tree, from Azozon's view (a facing person)		gewuhothel blohehal on the house's left (the landmark's own front)
hwozeduyol as a teacher (the role you act in)		hewem blwozeduyol like a teacher (a similative)