Internal subjects and predicates

Why does “gave a ball” make sense and “a ball gave” doesn’t? What does this tell us about language? The format of subject-predicate doesn’t just limit to the whole sentence. It also extends to internal chunks of a sentence. Lets see how. Firstly, what is a subject and what is a predicate? Subject is what you want to talk about, whereas predicate is what you want to talk about what you want to talk about. Now it is a fundamental structure of language that first we mention the former – what we want to talk about – and then the latter. This appeals to commonsense also. IF we mentioned the predicate first and subject later, the listener wouldn’t know what is being talked about, till the end when the subject would be mentioned. That would be odd for cognition purposes. Consider the sentence – John gave a ball to Jack. Here John is what is being talked about and the predicate is – gave a ball to Jack. But even internal to this sentence, look at the chunk – “gave a ball”. Why do we say “gave a ball” and not “a ball gave”? Because we begin with the subject, which is “giving” or “something what given” and the follow it up with the predicate – talking about the “giving” – which here happens to be ‘what was given’ i.e. a ball. Hence every other chunk in a sentence is a pair of “subject-predicate”, if we take this term in its broad sense. The very left-to-right progressive order of a sentence is inherently driven by the ‘subject-predicate’ pairs of chunks of words. Just as another example, “gave a ball to Jack” is the subject-predicate pair of ‘gave a ball’ and ‘to Jack’ respectively.