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It doesn't have a verb.
The Finns even have a verb that specifically means "to go to a mokki".
By the old rules it simply isn't a sentence, because it doesn't have a verb in it.
Early Vedic had a verb category that later went out of use: the injunctive, which was formally a form with secondary endings lacking the augment, a prefixed vowel e.g., vadhīs instead of avadhīs 'you slew' (2nd sg. imperfect).
They even had a verb (now obsolete) for describing how people are ruled while seeming to rule.
Michel Launey argues that Classical Nahuatl had a verb-initial basic word order with extensive freedom for variation, which was then used to encode pragmatic functions such as focus and topicality.
The typical clue has a subject, verb and object, but it still doesn't make any sense, at least not on the surface.
Let kids wander around the room until they find two other people, so that each group has a noun, verb, and modifier.
A complete sentence has a subject, a verb and at least 1 independent clause.
When the de-part only has an overt verb phrase (see 7a above and 23a below), it in fact involves a clause containing this verb phrase as well.
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