so-vo-li · W213

sovoli · bard / sonic artist · ✅

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First use	DND-004, D&D Classes (S658): la-so-vo-li so-vo lu-zo-li

Composition

so (sound) + vo (value/worth) + li (social agent). Head: li (agent-type). Modifier: so-vo (sound-worth) = worth created through sound. A so-vo-li is a person who produces worth through sonic performance. Right-branching: so-(vo-li) = sound-kind-of-worth-person.

Notes

W213. First attested DND-004 (S658). D&D Classes batch. The sentence S658 uses the lu (beneficiary) frame: so-vo lu-zo-li = sound-worth for-persons. This marks the bard as inherently other-directed: the acoustic worth is created FOR an audience. Contrast with the other classes whose actions have patient or causal frames (ra-ka against persons, ra-be from a source, etc.) — the bard's frame is beneficiary, capturing performance as fundamentally gift-oriented. The so root anchors the bard specifically to sound, distinguishing from a visual artist or actor who uses si (encoded representation) rather than so (acoustic signal).

Related

so (primitive: sound), vo (primitive: value/worth), li (primitive: social agent), so (sound — core root of si-go-li W201 content-originator uses si not so), lu (particle: beneficiary)

In the corpus

1 attestation.

S#	Tonesu
S658	la-so-vo-li so-vo lu-zo-li A bard creates sonic worth for persons.
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