title_body: Language with nominal TAM and no verbs: Ergative or tripartite?
upvoted_answer: In your example:
  
  
    Then, the actual translation for "the woman sees the man" would be
    "the womans sight the man". And that's the problem: "sight" and "man"
    are both unmarked nouns, leading to misinterpretation.
  
  
  ...sight is a verb.
  
  In order to have a verbless phrase, you'd want something like "the man within the woman's sight", making it clear you're using the noun "sight" and not the verb "sight".
  
  However, and I've seen this pointed out, if you end up needing particular constructions in order to indicate actions, all you're doing is making an overly complicated verb.