Possession and Relation

I thought of a better example for relationships independent of possession: inanimate objects.

These are the river’s banks. These are the banks of the river.

This is the rock’s edge.

That is the light of the dawn.

Anthropomorphizing inanimate objects and phenomena aside, a river doesn’t own anything. Neither do rocks or dawns. Yet the grammar is obviously the same between possession and relation.

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