LessonsLabīd ibn Rabīʿah: Deserted Dwellings, Seasons, Wildlife and Traces of the Past (Verses 1–10)Quiz

PhraseSyntactic analysisعَفَتِ الدِّيَارُVerb + subject; feminine singular with a nonhuman pluralتَجَرَّمَ ... حِجَجٌVerb with a delayed subject, “years”وَالْعِينُ سَاكِنَةٌNominal subject + predicateجَلَا السُّيُولُVerb + explicit subjectتُجِدُّ مُتُونَهَا أَقْلَامُهَاVerb + fronted object + delayed subject

Parsing requires verb valency and case, not just proximity. In “tujiddu mutūnahā aqlāmuhā,” mutūnahā is the object and aqlāmuhā the agent responsible for renewal.

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Labīd ibn Rabīʿah: Deserted Dwellings, Seasons, Wildlife and Traces of the Past (Verses 1–10)

PhraseSyntactic analysisعَفَتِ الدِّيَارُVerb + subject; feminine singular with a nonhuman pluralتَجَرَّمَ ... حِجَجٌVerb with a delayed subject, “years”وَالْعِينُ سَاكِنَةٌNominal subject + predicateجَلَا السُّيُولُVerb + explicit subjectتُجِدُّ مُتُونَهَا أَقْلَامُهَاVerb + fronted object + delayed subject

Parsing requires verb valency and case, not just proximity. In “tujiddu mutūnahā aqlāmuhā,” mutūnahā is the object and aqlāmuhā the agent responsible for renewal.