Rock, Mineral, Soil

Theme: Translation · 14 sentences.

MAT-001 · Rock, Mineral, Soil — First Pass (S293–S299)

Purpose: establish ma-based compounds for inorganic matter. No zo involvement. Key architecture: ma-su (structured matter = rock), ma-pa (place-matter = soil), with discriminated subclasses pu'ma-su (aggregate rock = gravel/sand) and su'ma-pa (structured soil = clay). Confirms ma-ki (water) in erosion and falling contexts. Stub: mas (CLQ-004a).

S293 la-ma-su no-ki Written: masu The rock lay still. / The stone was at rest.

Notes

ma-su = ma (matter/substance) + su (structure/order) = structured/organized matter = rock/stone. Rock is matter defined by stable internal structure: crystalline, granular, or amorphous solid mineral aggregate. Written: masu.
no-ki = no (negation/absence) + ki (motion) = absence of motion = stillness/rest. First corpus use of no-ki. Extends the no-* productive pattern (no-lu dark-coat S241, no-be erosion S297 below). Completes the motion polarity: ki (moved) / no-ki (did not move).
ma-su vs zo-su: both use su (structure) as the defining second root. The first root marks the ontological domain: zo-su = structural living thing (plant), ma-su = structural matter (rock). The parallel is intentional — structure is the defining property in both kingdoms; the zo/ma boundary is the living/nonliving divide.
Stub: mas = ma + su → mas. Compression matches zos (plant stub). Registered CLQ-004a.

S294 la-ma-pa ko lo-zo-be Written: mapa The soil held the seeds.

Notes

ma-pa = ma (matter) + pa (place/space) = place-matter = soil/earth. Soil is matter characterized by its place-constituting function: it is the ground, the surface layer that makes a place what it is. The compound is ma-pa (matter primary, place-role secondary) — earth is first and foremost matter that happens to constitute place. Written: mapa.
ko lo-zo-be = contained the biological-product = held the seeds. zo-be (biological reproductive product, S283 and S291) links the inorganic matter domain directly to the life cycle: soil holds seeds (zo-be), seeds become plants (zo-su). The sentence closes the loop between MAT-001 and PLT-001.
ma-pa vs di-pa (destination, S285): both use pa (place) but the primary root determines the reading. di-pa = direction-toward-a-place = destination; ma-pa = matter-of-a-place = earth/soil. pa consistently reads as location; the compound meaning is shaped by what precedes it.
Order matters: pa-ma (reversed) would mean a place defined by its material (a stone floor, a metal surface). ma-pa means material-that-constitutes-place. The ma-first ordering marks it as primarily a matter compound.

S295 la-pu'ma-su ko lo-pa Written: pu'masu The gravel covered the path. / The sand covered the ground.

Notes

pu'ma-su = pu (collective/plurality) + ' + ma-su (rock) = collective structured matter = aggregate/granular rock = gravel, sand, scree, rubble. The apostrophe marks pu as a compound discriminator on the rock base, not an NP-level quantity marker. pu'ma-su is a kind-term naming the rock class defined by its fragmented, collective nature — many-unit matter rather than single-unit matter. Written: pu'masu.
pu as discriminator vs NP quantity operator: in pu nu zo-se-so-di (S285, a flock) pu nu is a noun-phrase quantity prefix meaning "a plurality of." Here pu'ma-su is a compound kind-term: the rock class characterized by collectivity. Same root, different syntactic tier: NP operator vs. discriminator-head.
ko lo-pa = covered the place. Structural parallel to S289 (grass covering ground): in S289 a plant (pa-be'zo-su) covered ground as biological behavior; here aggregate rock covers ground as static deposit. Same predicate, different agent ontology.
Scope: pu'ma-su covers all aggregate mineral material — coarse gravel, fine sand, river pebbles, volcanic grit. Context or discriminator elaboration narrows further where needed.

S296 la-su'ma-pa ko lo-ma-ki Written: su'mapa The clay held water.

Notes

su'ma-pa = su (structure/order) + ' + ma-pa (soil/earth) = structured earth = clay. Clay is the soil class defined by internal structural organization: unlike ordinary ma-pa (loose, diffuse), clay has aligned mineral layers giving it cohesion, plasticity, and water-retention. Discriminator su marks the structural property that distinguishes clay from plain soil — the same root that defines rock (ma-su) as organized matter. Written: su'mapa.
ko lo-ma-ki = contained the flowing-matter = held water. ma-ki as standalone sentence patient for the first time. Prior appearances: compound discriminator head S282 (penguin), implicit in S285. Here ma-ki is a bare NP object in a matrix clause — confirms it is fully grammaticalized as an ordinary NP, not only a compound element.
Three-term continuum: ma-pa (loose soil) → su'ma-pa (cohesive clay) → ma-su (solid rock). All three are built from the same two primitive roots (ma, su, pa) in different compound configurations. The full range from loose earth to hard stone is encoded by composition alone.

S297 la-ma-ki no-be lo-ma-su The water wore down the stone. / The river eroded the rock.

Notes

no-be = no (negation/absence) + be (growth/creation) = reversal/absence of growth = erosion, diminishment, wearing-away. First corpus use of no-be. Mirrors be (intransitive: grew, S286) and be (transitive causative: planted, S292). no-be is the inverse causative: caused-to-un-grow = wore down = eroded. The no-* pattern (no-lu S241, no-ki S293) confirmed productive across inorganic domain.
la-ma-ki no-be lo-ma-su = flowing matter wore down the structured matter = water eroded the rock. First clause with both ma-ki (water) and ma-su (rock) as sentence-level arguments. Their interaction is compositionally clean: flowing agent acts on structured patient; predicate names the direction of change (negated growth = reduction).
no-be scope: gradual mineral subtraction over time — erosion, abrasion, dissolution. Not breaking (ki), not falling (this sentence), but sustained wearing. River channels, sea stacks, rain-worn limestone — all no-be lo-ma-su.

S298 la-ma-su ki lo-ma-ki The stone fell into the river.

Notes

la-ma-su ki lo-ma-ki = the structured matter moved into the flowing matter = the rock fell into the river. First sentence where a non-living, non-water ma-class noun is the moving grammatical agent. Rock moves by gravity; no intention is required or implied.
la- marks grammatical agency, not volition. Prior la- agents: living organisms, first-person mi. la-ma-su (rock falling) confirms that la- is the grammatical subject prefix for any mover or actor, not only an intentional agent marker. Intentional action is encoded in predicates and discriminators (ka, wi-), not in the agent-marking prefix itself.
lo-ma-ki as patient = into/through the flowing matter = into the river. Third sentence-level appearance of ma-ki as a clause NP (S296: ko lo-ma-ki; S297: la-ma-ki; S298: lo-ma-ki). ma-ki has now appeared in all three grammatical positions — agent, free NP, patient.

S299 la-mi di lo-mas Written: mas I threw a rock. (casual register)

Notes

mas = ma + su → mas. Rock-class stub. Compression: CV of first root + terminal consonant of second root = ma + s (from su) = mas. Matches zos = zo + su → zos exactly — same second root, same mechanism. Written: mas. Registers as CLQ-004a.
di lo-mas = directed the rock = threw/hurled/launched. di (direction) as predicate with a projectile patient = intentional directed projection = throwing. Echoes di-pa (directed destination, S285): throwing a rock is directing a mas toward an implicit di-pa.
mas as the first non-zo-anchored stub. All prior stubs (zol, zof, zod, zos) were organism kind-terms anchored on zo. mas anchors on ma (matter). The compression rule (short form unambiguous in discourse domain; formal compound canonical fallback) applies regardless of anchor root. Discriminated forms carry the discriminator: pu'mas = gravel/sand (casual).

MAT-002 · Water and Natural Features (S300–S306)

Purpose: establish ma-ki-based kind-terms for natural water features. Seven kind-terms: water (general), river, sea, lake, rain, cloud, ice. Key architectural decision: all water features are discriminated forms of ma-ki (flowing matter). Enclosure (ko) is the organizing contrast: lake = enclosed water, cloud = sky-enclosed water, rain = uncontained water. Ice = su'ma-ki (structured flowing-matter), not ma-su (rock). No CLQ entries this batch.

S300 la-di'ma-ki ki Written: di'maki The river flowed.

Notes

di'ma-ki = di (direction) + ' + ma-ki (flowing matter) = directed flowing matter = river. Head: ma-ki (flowing matter), modified by di (direction) = flowing matter characterized by having a defined path/direction = river. Written: di'maki.
ki (motion) without patient = intransitive movement = flow. Simplest possible river sentence, parallel to S293 (la-ma-su no-ki = rock lay still) — the contrasting pair: rock is still (no-ki), river moves (ki).
Back-reference: ma-ki first appeared as compound discriminator in S282 (penguin: ma-ki'zo-se-so-di) and was fully confirmed as clause-level NP in MAT-001 (S296–S298). di'ma-ki (river) extends this: ma-ki now functions as both a clause-level NP (bare water) and as a compound base for discriminated water features.
Structure note: di'ma-ki has di as discriminator-head on base ma-ki. Different structure from di-pa (established compound, hyphen = two-root compound): di-pa is di + pa at the same level; di'ma-ki uses the apostrophe to mark di as a discriminator prefixing the base ma-ki. No collision.

S301 la-pa'ma-ki ko lo-pa Written: pa'maki The sea covered the land.

Notes

pa'ma-ki = pa (place/space) + ' + ma-ki (flowing matter) = place-scale flowing matter = sea/ocean. Head: ma-ki (flowing matter), modified by pa (place) = water at the scale of a place = the water body that constitutes an entire region. Written: pa'maki.
ko lo-pa = covered/enclosed the place = covered the land. Structurally identical to S289 (la-pa-be'zo-su ko lo-pa = grass covered the ground): in both cases, a pa-bearing agent covers a pa patient. S289 = a growth-characterized-by-place covers a place; S301 = water-characterized-by-place covers a place. The sea and the grass are both entities defined by their relationship to ground-scale expanse.
pa repeat: pa'ma-ki (sea) contains pa, and its patient is also lo-pa (place). Unambiguous — apostrophe marks the discriminator boundary; lo- marks the patient. Precedent: S289 confirmed this structure is well-formed.
Scope: sea, ocean. Large lakes may approach pa'ma-ki territory colloquially; the formal distinction is scale (ocean = place-constituting; lake = land-enclosed).

S302 la-ko'ma-ki no-ki Written: ko'maki The lake lay still.

Notes

ko'ma-ki = ko (enclose/contain) + ' + ma-ki (flowing matter) = enclosed flowing matter = lake. Head: ma-ki (flowing matter), modified by ko (enclosure) = water defined by being enclosed by land on all sides = lake, pond, reservoir. Written: ko'maki.
no-ki = absence of motion = stillness. Reused from S293 (la-ma-su no-ki = the rock lay still). Two things are defined by stillness: solid organized matter (rock) and enclosed water (lake). The lake is still precisely because it is enclosed — the enclosure absorbs wave energy and removes directional flow.
Enclosure contrast: ko'ma-ki (lake: water IS enclosed) vs di'ma-ki (river: water HAS a direction/outlet) vs pa'ma-ki (sea: water constitutes a place). Three water kinds, three organizing concepts: containment, direction, scale.

S303 la-lu-ko'ma-ki be lo-no-ko'ma-ki Written: luko'maki The cloud released rain. / The cloud produced rain.

Notes

lu-ko'ma-ki = lu (light/sky) + ko (enclose) + ' + ma-ki (flowing matter) = sky-enclosed flowing matter = cloud. Head: ma-ki (flowing matter), discriminator head: ko (enclosure), modified by lu (sky/light domain) = water enclosed in the luminous upper zone = cloud. Written: luko'maki.
no-ko'ma-ki = no (absence) + ko (enclosure) + ' + ma-ki (flowing matter) = uncontained/free-falling flowing matter = rain. Head: ma-ki (flowing matter), discriminator: absence of enclosure = water in a state of free descent (not channeled, not pooled, not sky-held). Written: noko'maki.
Cloud → rain semantics visible in compound structure: lu-ko'ma-ki (cloud = sky-enclosed water) produces no-ko'ma-ki (rain = sky-no-longer-enclosed water). The ko → no-ko transition directly encodes the physical event: the cloud releases its containment, and rain is what remains — water that is now defined by the absence of the enclosure that made it a cloud. The predicate be (produce/release/cause-to-emerge) connects the two.
be as productive causative: established intransitive (S286: plant grew), transitive (S292: planted a tree, S283: chicken laid egg). Here: cloud produced rain = cloud caused rain to exist. be lo-[new-matter-form] = caused to produce a new form of the same substance.
no-ko extends the no-* pattern. no-lu (dark/no-light), no-ki (still/no-motion), no-be (erodes/no-growth), no-ko (uncontained/no-enclosure). Four no-* negations across four established roots; all compositionally transparent.

S304 la-no-ko'ma-ki ki lo-ma-pa The rain fell on the soil. / The rain came down to ground.

Notes

ki lo-ma-pa = moved to/onto the place-matter = fell upon the soil. ma-pa (soil/earth) established S294. Rain (no-ko'ma-ki) finds its ending in soil (ma-pa) — the first step of the water cycle's terrestrial phase. Rain hits soil; soil holds seeds (zo-be, S294); seeds become plants (zo-su, S286).
Water cycle span in the corpus: rain falls on soil (S304) → soil holds seeds (S294) → tree grows (S287) → tree bears fruit (S291) → water erodes rock (S297) → river flows (S300) → river reaches sea (S306 below). The corpus now spans the complete terrestrial cycle without any special vocabulary: only ma, zo, ki, be, su, pa, di, ko and their compounds.

S305 la-su'ma-ki ko lo-di'ma-ki Written: su'maki The ice covered the river.

Notes

su'ma-ki = su (structure/order) + ' + ma-ki (flowing matter) = structured flowing matter = ice. Head: ma-ki (flowing matter), discriminator: su (structure) = water organized into a solid crystalline lattice. Written: su'maki.
su as structural organizer across matter kinds: ma-su (rock = organized mineral matter), su'ma-pa (clay = organizationally-cohesive soil), su'ma-ki (ice = crystalline-organized water). The su root marks internal ordered structure regardless of the base matter; the result is always the solid/cohesive form of that matter. Rock, clay, and ice are the three su-extreme forms of mineral matter, earth, and water respectively.
Why su'ma-ki and not ma-su: the scaffold proposed ma-su for ice. This was overridden by MAT-001, which settled ma-su as rock. Ice cannot share the rock compound — they are different substances. su'ma-ki correctly keeps ice in the water (ma-ki) family while marking its structured state. The design is consistent: ice is to water as rock is to mineral matter; both are the su-organized forms of their substance.
ko lo-di'ma-ki = covered/sealed the river. A river covered by ice (su'ma-ki) is still a river (di'ma-ki); the ice is a layer over it, not a replacement.

S306 la-mi ki lo-di'ma-ki I crossed the river.

Notes

ki lo-di'ma-ki = moved through/across the directed-flowing-matter = crossed the river. di'ma-ki appears in all three grammatical positions across S300–S306: agent (S300: river flowed), patient-covering (S305: ice covered river), patient-crossed (S306: I crossed river). Three sentence roles; one kind-term. Fully grammaticalized.
No CLQ entry: ma-ki is two morphemes (below the 3-morpheme contraction threshold). Discriminated forms (di'ma-ki, pa'ma-ki, etc.) have three morphemes but no obvious CVC target that improves on the spoken form. The shortest possible stub for a water feature (dik, pak, kok) saves one or two syllables at the cost of opacity. Registered as a design note: water-feature stubs are deferred until corpus pressure forces a contraction.
Cycle closed: S306 = human crosses the river. S300 = river flows. S301 = sea receives. Three water-related clauses across MAT-002 now show the water cycle's natural syntax: source (rain), transit (river), destination (sea), human presence at the crossing.

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