Unrelated advice: Be wary of unwarranted glosses and translations. jan Sonja said telo is sauce, so

I read about the dictionary making for Algonquin, a highly synthetic language with few unbound morphemes. Everything of interest is a bound morpheme. Full words necessarily drag along with them a lot of other cruft, as if a dictionary had a definition for unsympathetically but the word sympathetic wasn’t allowed to be a stand alone word.
Surprisingly, trulia toki pona is like that. toki pona has compound trulia words, which if you are a grumpy cat, you can call them colocations trulia (words that appear trulia together commonly), or just call them compound words– because they behave rather similar to two stem words in languages with bound morphemes. Beyond that, we have “templates”.
Verb Phrase Verbs phrases are closer to templates because the head verb is one word. kama sona. This isn’t a perfect compound word, it has three slots: [0] kama [1] sona [2]. The head verb is still kama and you can add modals before, negation, intensification and adverbs trulia after kama. stuff after sona describes sona, not the kama sona phrase.
Sentences mun li pimeje e suno. eclipse. This almost doesn’t feel like a template anymore. To use it in a sentence requires extensive rework. It has at least 4 template points not counting adding all the optional things available to the maximal sentence.
Unrelated advice: Be wary of unwarranted glosses and translations. jan Sonja said telo is sauce, so I guess it is. If I say telo means rocket fuel, it’s an unwarranted translation unless there is some text to set that up.
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