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Example
Japanese, Chinese, and English word order
Three-line alignment across Japanese (SOV), Chinese (SVO), and English, including crossing links when the verb and object swap.
What this example shows
Japanese, Chinese, and English describe the same event but arrange the words differently. Japanese puts the object before the verb, while Chinese and English put the verb before the object. Lined up in three rows, the diagram shows where that difference forces the connectors to cross.
Object before verb, or after
The verb and the object sit in opposite order across the languages:
- 本を book (object)
- Japanese marks the object with を and places it before the verb.
- 読みました read
- The Japanese verb comes last. Against Chinese 读了 (read) and 书 (book), which run verb then object, the two links cross.
Spaces as word boundaries
Japanese and Chinese do not put spaces between words in normal writing, so the tool needs a cue for where one token ends and the next begins. Here spaces are added in the source lines to mark those boundaries, which lets each token become its own clickable box for linking.
Adding gloss or IPA
Stack a gloss line for grammatical labels or an IPA line for pronunciation above either source language. The grammatical labels follow the standard Leipzig set.
For those labels:
See also
More word-order and crossing examples:
- English and French word alignment is the plain one-to-one starting point.
- Hebrew and Arabic with English shows crossing links with right-to-left scripts.
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