"Āeksio sylvie kēli rijas."

Translation: The master praises the wise cat.

[Nuha302093]

How can you tell whether "sylvie" modifies "aaeksio" or "keeli"?

[tim981145]

Yes this sentence is quite ambiguous. Āeksio and kēli can both be nominative or accusative, so I would say the word order tells which of them is nominative and which accusative. Same for sylvie. The adjective could really modify both nouns. Maybe in this case prepositive comes before postpositive, but not sure if one of them is more common. I would say prepositive is more common...

[Nuha302093]

Thanks!