Interlinear glossed textDuus| Recording date | 2000-11-23 |
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| Speaker age | 23 |
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| Speaker sex | m |
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| Text genre | traditional narrative |
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| Extended corpus | no |
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| | | Translation | I will begin a story here, a little (one). |
| | | Translation | I start the thing that I will speak (about). |
| | | Translation | My speech is not about anything. |
| nnoehoe n n @ h @
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| nnoe | =hoe | | LOC.ANAPH | =exactly |
| | Translation | This speech is about the vulture, the cricket, the snake and the stork. |
| | | Translation | The vulture rose. |
| | | Translation | The vulture sat here. |
| | | Translation | The vulture said: "(It is) him (who) is the chief of the stork and the cricket." |
| | | Translation | The cricket said: "(It is) him (who) is the chief of the vulture and the stork." |
| | | Translation | The stork rose (and) sat here. |
| | | Translation | The stork said: "He is the chief of the vulture and the cricket." |
| | | Translation | The stork said, somebody who--, uh. |
| | | Translation | The vulture started. |
| | | Translation | The vulture said: "Someone who when (he) has grown big, like he (has), he would receive the chieftancy." |
| | | Translation | The cricket said: "Someone, when (he) has hair, hair on his body, when (it) is hard, he would turn chief." |
| | | Translation | The stork said: "Someone, when his body has become white, when (it) has received whiteness, he would receive the chieftancy." |
| | | Translation | They went (and) called here the father--, of them (all), who is piercing (i.e., installing) them with the chieftancy. |
| Gaskiya g a s_h k_h i j a
| | Translation | The stork said: "(It is) the truth." |
| | | Translation | "He, (it was) trouble (that) made (it) so that the middle of his head has become bald." |
| | | Translation | "Since past times, he has been (there) so that he seaches for the chieftancy." |
| | | Translation | "(But) he didn't get the chieftancy." |
| | | Translation | The cricket said: "He would rise with his wings." |
| | | Translation | "He moves (and) returns home to the place where he would get the chieftancy." |
| | | Translation | "The chief--, the thing that--, uh, those, birds that fly above." |
| | | Translation | (He) said: "He would receive the chieftancy, he would, the crickt." |
| | | Translation | The stork said: "He would receive (it) because he is whiter than them." |
| | | Translation | "And also he is more beautiful than them." |
| | | Translation | "Because of this, (it is) him, he would receive the chieftancy." |
| | | Translation | You see, (****), they should--, (they) waged war on the cricket and--, the hawk. |
| | | Translation | The father about them (all), the hawk. |
| nyeb'yool n_j e b_j_< o: l
| | Translation | The hawk said: "Sit, (and) you would argue this argument." |
| | | Translation | "I know the person who would receive the chieftancy." |
| | | Translation | "But I will not tell (it) with my own mouth." |
| | | Translation | "Lest there is no arguing, when I am deciding." |
| gaskiya g a s_h k_h i j a
| | Translation | "Because of this, only when a person wins, so that (he) knows the truth amongst them." |
| | | Translation | The stork and the vulture said: "Come (and) measure their mouths." |
| | | Translation | They measured their mouths. |
| | | Translation | The mouth of the stork was more pointed than that of the vulture. |
| | | Translation | The mouth of the vulture, however, was more ugly than that of the stork. |
| | | Translation | The mouth of the stork was more beautiful than that of the vulture. |
| | | Translation | They repeated (this and) prepared (and) measured the feathers on their body, they watched (and) saw. |
| | | Translation | The feathers of the body of the stork were more beautiful than those of the vulture. |
| | | Translation | They repeated (this) again, (and they) measured their legs. |
| nyan-nyan n_j a n n_j a n
ngorong-ngorong N g o r o N N g o r o N
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| n- | gorong | ~ngorong | | ADVZ- | crooked | **** |
| | Translation | The legs of the vulture, really ugly, really being crooked. |
| | | Translation | The legs of the stork stood, (it was) them that stood lean. |
| | | Translation | But they were beautiful. |
| | | Translation | So that that (he) would receive the chieftancy. |
| | | Translation | Because the places where the stork would go (to), the vulture would not be able to go there. |
| | | Translation | The cricket said: "He, too, he is following them." |
| | | Translation | (He) said: "Maybe when they talk what (-ever) thing?" |
| | | Translation | The cricket said: "Okay, when (it is) not like this, everyone (who) has weapons (should come), so that we see." |
| | | Translation | "(It would be) him, he would--, he, the cricket." |
| | | Translation | (He) said: "He has teeth to bite them with them." (He) said: "He also, he (can) kick them with his legs." |
| | | Translation | "Because his legs are like a needle, a thorn." |
| | | Translation | They started a fight, uh, the cricket and the vulture. |
| | | Translation | They started a fight. |
| | | Translation | The cricket kicked, (he) brought out his leg (and) kicked the vulture with it. |
| | | Translation | The vulture really heard his own (i.e., it really hurt). |
| | | Translation | (He) again brought out his second leg, (and) again kicked teh vulture with it. |
| | | Translation | The vulture heard his own. |
| | | Translation | (He) again bit the vulture. |
| | | Translation | The vulture went to bend his mouth to catch (him). |
| | | Translation | The cricket, the cricket ran and eventually fell--, into the feathers of his body. |
| | | Translation | When the vulture went to put his mouth inside. |
| | | Translation | The cricket (then) rose, (and he) returned and bit his side. |
| | | Translation | The vulture was feeling (it) here, when (he) would return here, the cricket eventually bit (him). |
| | | Translation | (This is) the thing that makes (it that) if a person watches, (he) will see (that) the stork--, uh, (he) will see (that) the vulture is sitting, does not often sit on the ground like this, (he) only is (there to) see (to) the animals. |
| | | Translation | But when (he) refuses to see (to) the animals, (he) would never sit on the ground. |
| | | Translation | Whatever (he) finds at the place, (he) would sit--, on a tree, up on a tree, so that (he) should find (and) sit down there in the place. |
| | | Translation | The stork, because of--, because of his beauty, the stork has never descended to a place for nothing. |
| | | Translation | For his descending, (it is) at the edge of a river, or maybe, (he) descends at a place where (there) would be a few of his people, all (of them). |
| | | Translation | Because the brother, the brother of the cricket, uh, the brother of--, the stork is the cricket. |
| | | Translation | When the stork wants to see the vulture, the stork would enter on his leg, so that (he) should bring out the vulture with it, uh, so that (he) should bring out the cricket with it, with his legs. |
| | | Translation | When the cricket bites his leg, (he) would never feel (it), (he) would bring (him) out, (he) would bring out the cricket from inside a hole, so that the cricket should find (and) come out, so that (he) should rest. |
| | | Translation | (This is) the thing that makes (it that) the vulture and the stork, their mouths are not the same. |
| | | Translation | And their mouths have never returned home as one. |
| | | Translation | They are upset (lit., their hearts are being spoiled) with each other, indeed. |
| | | Translation | But the cricket and the stork, uh, the cricket and the stork, they are--, the same thing. |
| moegoeshiri m @ g @ S_h i r i
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| moe- | goe- | shiri | | NOMZ- | COM- | preparation |
| | Translation | (This is) the thing that makes (it that) when someone sees the stork and the vulture, they are--, they aren't people who **** (i.e., they don't like each other). |
| moed'emen m @ d_< e m e n
| | Translation | When someone sees the cricket and the stork, they (are) different, they are people who are good to each other. |
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