Never forget tp is about polysemy, so a tp phrase can be parse many ways– one word at a time, or by assuming that a pair of words has a conventional meaning.
Doubles-
jan suli, big guy or god.
telo nasa, crazy water, booze
tomo telo, water room, restroom
Triples
telo nasa jelo, yellow crazy water, yellow booze, beer
telo mama soweli, female cute-animal water, water of cow, milk
Triples with pi
tomo pi telo nasa, room of cray water, bar
toki pi wile sona, talk of wanting knowlege. talk of curiosity. Question
Quadruples -
telo nasa wawa ala – not powerful crazy water. Maybe distilled water?
mama mama mama mama – great-great-grandmother
Quadruples with pi –
telo nasa pi wawa ala – crazy water of no power. Non-alcoholic beer.
Word Trains
In English you can write a sentence that end in five prepositions, e.g. “What did you bring that book that we didn’t want to be read to out of up for?”
Similarly, in tp. you can have phrases of 4+ words without a function word (e.g. pi, li, e, la, ni, kepeken, etc), but the cognative burden of parsing such a phrase is very high.
mi li wile e ilo mute jelo suli pona Epanja.
I want many, yellow, big, good, Spanish things.
I want good Spanish lemon-yellow bundles.
etc.
You can’t tell if we have two word modifiers or what going on. Obviously breaking up word trains with function words would probably make the sentence clear.