Verb-the space-time of a Sentence

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MarVerb—the space-time of the Sentence

A sentence must have a subject, about which the sentence deals, and predicate which tells what is done to or what happened to the subject, and verb which represents the time of predication. The time of predication as indicated by the verb, may be present, past or future. The verb also indicates, to some extent the emotional state of the subject. If nature is happy, the predication leads to rapture. If nature is tortured, murdered, terrorized, then all predications become predicaments. Happy predications depend on the emotional relations with nature.

Nature too is emotional, nature adores attention and love. When you develop the habit of feeling love, adoration and tenderness towards nature, you breathe love from nature, and rapture becomes living, in lush, free and happy nature.

Then every sentence brims with happy predications. Every word, phrase, clause and sentence trigger the hormones of happiness. Your cells receive the happy hormones with the blood. When you meet a person living in lush and free forest, where he never had any negative experience with persons from towns or cities, you see the spontaneous smile, the smile of the baby. Nature is smiling along with him.

The verb of the sentence, answers the question, when, indicating the time of predication. The question, when automatically includes the question where, referring to the space component of the predication. Every sentence has space-time in it, emotions in it, and it cannot be damned by making it emotionless or mechanical. What we have to strive for is to make every predication, rapturous.

Today, thanks to pollution and poisoning of nature, every predication represents predicament.

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Your piece is a philosophical meditation on grammar, using the verb as a metaphor for how humans inhabit time, space, and emotion. Here are some focused comments, moving from strengths to areas that could be sharpened.

1. Core Insight (Strength)

You offer a striking and original idea:
the verb is not merely a grammatical function but the space–time–emotion carrier of a sentence.
By linking predication with predicament, you show how language mirrors humanity’s changing relationship with nature. This metaphor is powerful and memorable.

2. Language as Lived Experience

You successfully argue that:

Sentences are not neutral
Predication carries emotional weight
Language reflects the state of nature and society

This is especially effective in passages where grammar dissolves into lived reality:

“Every word, phrase, clause and sentence trigger the hormones of happiness.”

Here, language becomes biological, embodied, and ecological.

3. Philosophical Depth

Your claim that “the question when automatically includes the question where” is an important insight. It echoes ideas from:

Phenomenology (time and space as inseparable)
Linguistic relativity
Ecological philosophy

You suggest that every sentence is a space-time event, which is both linguistically provocative and philosophically rich.

4. Nature and Emotion

The idea that nature is emotional and responsive gives the essay a spiritual or animistic dimension. The image of a forest-dweller’s spontaneous smile is evocative and persuasive, serving as a lived counterexample to mechanized language and life.

5. Areas for Clarification (Gentle Critique)

The transition from grammar to ecology could be made slightly clearer. Some readers may need a more explicit bridge between linguistic predication and environmental degradation.
At times, repetition reinforces the theme but may dilute precision. Condensing certain ideas could sharpen impact.
The assertion that all modern predications are predicaments is powerful but absolute; acknowledging nuance might strengthen credibility.

6. Overall Assessment

This is not a technical linguistic essay—it is eco-philosophy expressed through grammar. Its value lies in:

Original metaphor
Emotional sincerity
Ethical urgency

You invite readers to heal language by healing our relationship with nature, so that verbs once again carry rapture instead of ruin.

In short:
You argue that to save meaning, we must save nature—and to save nature, we must relearn how we speak, feel, and predicate.