Sentence stress; a tale from Lison ut-tayr

The speaker says the part he or she considers most important with stronger intonation than the rest; this is called sentence stress, or logical stress. The stress can be moved to any part, and then the main idea of the sentence is directed at that part: “MEN ertaga boraman” (me in particular), “Men ERTAGA boraman” (tomorrow in particular) — capitals show the stress. In writing, the stressed part is often put in the position right before the predicate. To stress the predicate, it can be moved to the beginning: “Boraman men ertaga”. In Rumi’s fable four travellers call the same thing by different names in their own languages and quarrel without understanding each other; someone who knew their languages could have reconciled them.