Structure cmavo are one of the major cmavo classes. Their common characteristic is that they enable structuring text and sentences, by modifying other elements, linking or separating two diffiferent constructs etc.
Text structure cmavo enable organizing the text into chapters, sections, subsection and sentences, as well as attributing an ordinal value to those.
Connectives enable linking together two elememts or constructs of the same type.
Afterthought connectives are placed between two elements/constructs of the same type.
Forethought connectives introduce two elements of the same type binded together.
[i.e. sumti & bridi & bridi-tail]
Terminators (fa'orma'o) are used to explicitly mark the end of a grammatical construct, usually for preventing the following element/construct from being absorbed into the construct, or sometimes for attaching right-branching modifier such as attitudinals to the whole construct.
(KU, KEI, VAU, KUhO, etc.)
ZOhU aren't actually terminators, but they do signal the end of the prenex. (A prenex is only available if there is a bridi-tail.)
sumti-relative modifier are placed after a sumti for introducing new information about it.
Relative-phrase cmavo (GOI) enable linking to a sumti another sumti adding information about it. Relative phrases can be explicitely closed with {ge'u}.
Relative clause cmavo (NOI) enable linking to a sumti a bridi clause adding information about the sumti; the modified sumti may be refered to within the attached bridi clause by using the token cmavo {ke'a}. Relative clauses can be explicitely closed with {ku'o}.
cmavo-dependent indicators/modifiers are a root cmavo category despite their low number of members; like free modifiers they don't affect the syntax of the word they attach to, but they can only attach to certain specific class of cmavo or that are left-branched, what prevents them from entering the free-modifier category.
Free modifiers are a family of cmavo which can be attached to virtually any other element of the sentence; they have no syntactic effect and only modify the semantics of the sentence.
(coi, ju'i, be'e, etc.)
(re'i, je'e, etc.)
Pure emotion attitudinals (UI1) can be divided into two categories: realis and irrealis.Realis UI1 are the most common, and don't modify the truth value of the bridi.Here is their list:.i'a, .ie, .a'e, .u'i, .i'o, .i'e, .a'a, .o'e, .oi, .uo,.u'o, .ua, .a'i, .i'u, .u'a, .ui, .iu, .o'o, .uu, .o'a,.o'u, .u'u, .io, .ue, .i'i, .o'i, .ii, .a'u, .u'e
Pure emotion attitudinals (UI1) can be divided into two categories: realis and irrealis.Irrealis UI1 are characterised in that they modify the truth value of the bridi they apply to.Here is their list:.au, .a'o, .ai, .ei, .e'o, .e'u, .ia, .e'e, .e'i, .e'a
Magic cmavo are a major syntactic class, they act on the neighbouring words and ignore their selma'o.« Interaction of magic words is one of the more annoying parts of writing a parser », fpcalep.
Erasers enable erasing one or several previously written or uttered words, sentence or even the whole discourse.
zo, zoi, lo'u, zo'oi, and some other quote words are magic cmavo.
Letterals (lerfu) are one of the major classes of syntactic elements.
Terms are one of the major classes of syntactic elements. They can be distributed over several sentence spaces such as the prenex, the bridi head and the bridi tail, and are usually complements of the selbri.sumti, tags and {na ku} are common isntances of terms.
sumti (predicate arguments) are one of the fundamental elements of a bridi-predication, they correspond to the arguments of the predication.
Descriptors, also called articles (gadri in Lojban), enable creating sumti from cmevla (LA...KU), selbri (LA/LE...KU) or number (LI...LOhO).
LA are name descriptors, they enable making sumti from cmevla or brivla.
sumka'i (pronouns) are a class of cmavo playing the role of a sumti in the predication.
Quotes are a class of cmavo enabling converting Lojban words or text as well as foreign language word or text into sumti.
[ZOI <delim> .* <delim>]
[zo'oi, la'oi, ra'oi]
Tags (sumtcita in Lojban) are a major subset of terms. They enable adding aditionnal argument places to the selbri.Syntactically, they introduce a new sumti into the bridi; if no sumti is provided, they can be closed with {ku}.
BAI tags enable adding a new argument place to the current bridi.
BAI are based directly on fi'o-clauses.
Can appear after any TAG
Grammatically, {naku} constitutes a term, which makes it usable in strange contexts such as in termsets and in relative phrases.
selbri (predicates) are one of the major classes of syntactic elements. They express the relation (predicate) linking together the various terms of the sentence. Typical selbri are produced from tanru, plain brivla, and certain cmavo.
All brivla in lojban are selbri creating words.
Gismu are the root words of lojban. Each gismu creates a selbri relationship among sumti. For each gismu there is exactly one associated rafsi
Lujvo are "compound words" created from the morphological combination of two or more rafsi. The lujvo's meaning is derrived from the tanru-like construction of the gismu related to the used rafsi.
(zu'o, za'i, pu'u, mu'e)
brika'i (selbri-like cmavo, selma'o GOhA) are cmavo playing the role of selbri; they have place structure and behave exactly as regular selbri.
cmevla (proper names) are one of the major classes of syntactic elements.
This is a semantic categorization of words, so this node is a bit out-of-place.
Each cluster contains exactly two lerfu
An exceptionally impermissible consonant cluster is a group of cmavo that is impermissible due to a specific rule, rather than a general rule such as "voiced/unvoiced is illegal".
Strictly speaking, rafsi aren't words, but they are included in this chart for completeness's sake.