patterner

Between two tall blades in the clearing a spider had spun a web, a circle delicately suspended. The silver threads caught the sunlight. In the center the spinner waited, a gray-black thing no larger than the pupil of an eye.

“She too is a patterner,” Ged said, studying the artful web.

the terms object patterners and verb patterners will be used here for those elements whose order tends to correlate with that of the object and verb respectively. Thus genitives are object patterners while the nouns they modify are verb patterners.