The ascii form is these four in MARC order: Happy-M-End-0. (MRAC order is obsolete.)
The Morpheme indicates the general meaning of the word.
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| Happy | Home | Rikchik | Fight |
The Aspect indicates a sub-meaning of the word. It looks like a "part of speech" but it isn't, quite.
R: animate (rikchik)
T: inanimate (thing)
P: place
I: idea
V: verb
M: modifier
N: name (special)
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| Home-R | Home-T | Sun-R | Sun-P | Talk-I | Talk-V | Rikchik-R | Rikchik-M |
| Family | House | Sun | East | Language | Talk | Rikchik | Green |
The N aspect is used for names and compound words. In a name, every word in the name takes the N aspect. In a compound word, all the words above the base word take the N aspect.
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| The human "Spot" | A sky-fish |
The Relation indicates how this word relates to the word that collects it. It's kind of akin to "part of speech" or "case".
Source (also cause)
Agent
Quality
Instrument
Patient (for intransitive verbs, the English subject is the Rikchik patient)
Destination
Includes
End
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| Insect-R-Agent-0 Flower-T-Patient-0 Mouth-V-End-2 | Insect-R-Agent-0 Flower-T-Includes-0 Mouth-V-End-2 | Insect-R-Patient-0 Flower-T-Agent-0 Mouth-V-End-2 |
| The insect eats the flower | The insect eats in the flower | The flower eats the insect |
Each relation also has a reciprocal, for indicating "the insect that was eaten" etc.
The Collector indicates how many previously uncollected words this word collects. If you imagine the rikchik sentence as a tree structure, the collector is the number of branches above this node. Collectors go from 0 to 7, plus the archaic "scholastic" collector.
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| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | S |
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| Home-P-Source-0 Sun-R-Quality-0 Beach-P-Destination-1 Me-R-Patient-0 Move-V-End-3 | |
| I go from home to the sunny beach. | |