Complex NPs in Arusian - Nominalised Clauses

Complex NPs in Arusian, that is, NPs that don't have only a single noun/root inside, are usually nominalised CPs. Unlike in English, many NP structures with a noun, a determiner and an adjective are actually clauses in Aru. Beware that they often don't translate word for word between the two languages, so literal translations are extremely likely to fall apart.

Clauses in Aru usually have the form X sa Y (SA can undergo allomorphy to -S which is enclitic to the noun or Ø when the second element is a VP). Su delras is a CP meaning "he rules". If one wants to nominalise it and use it as if it were an NP, meaning "the one who rules" -- which is basically a "ruler", "governor" or "king" -- you replace the SA copula by Ø, which is the nominaliser. It yields su-delra, which can be used as a noun.

Some Minimalistic Program trees of both structures:

CP[Su delras]

NP[[CP su delras]]