Syntactic function vt0oN.adV
subjectless verb with its object, this phrase modifying a verb phrase with an explicit or implicit subject that follows (e.g. zhi4 至 "until" as in 至暮不來 "did not come until the evening" 至秋不成。 "by the autumn they do not ripen".)
The question whether the V has to be taken as a "minor sentence" often raises a moot point. And as often mentioned elsewhere the minor as well as the major verbal sentence should be taken as a subtype of a V. The question who arrived at the evening cannot be answered with a plausible classical Chinese word. Clearly, zhi4 至 "until" is derived from the verb "to arrive at". But the point is that this verb is here used in a puzzling subjectless way.
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