In one, the main sentence refers to that part of a compound sentence that contains the conjugated verb that governs all others. In the tree structure that represents the hierarchy of syntactic constitutions is the sentence whose verbal nucleus is in the "higher" position, the rest of the verbs being introduced by subordinate nexus. A main sentence can be simple or include within itself other dependent or subordinate sentences. To locate it, three criteria are usually used:
Some languages use less frequent procedures than the previous ones. In Huichol for example after the mark of person appears a different morpheme according to the sentence is main (pi-) or subordinate (mi-). In miskito also different marks appear in the verb of the main and subordinate sentence.
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