linguistics question: why do sentence diagrams put the verb at the top?

we are (because special interest) futzing around with diagramming toki pona sentences, and it occurs to us that we don't know why that convention.

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@packbat a common model of natural language semantics is to regard verbs as functions that take arguments

@aescling *nods*

that lines up with the way verbs are usually put on top

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