Interlinear glossed text014| Recording date | 1997-04-02 |
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| Speaker age | 80 |
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| Speaker sex | m |
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| Text genre | traditional narrative |
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| Extended corpus | yes |
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| | | Translation | He told that there was this ancestor who had a son, he and his wife. |
| | | Translation | But his wife died, and the father and son were left. |
| pestafik
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| pestaf | -i | -k | | talk to | -TS | -1SG.DP |
| | Translation | Until this old man became old and he called his son. His father said, "Come here, I want to talk to you." The boy went to see his father. |
| kinrikin
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| ki= | nrik | -i | n | | 3SG.PS= | tell | -V | 3SG.OBJ |
| | Translation | And his father said to him, "We are both here but when I die |
| | | Translation | Some day you will bury me. |
| | | Translation | And you will come to look after my grave. |
| p̃aleperkati
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| p̃a= | lee | perkati | | 2SG.IRS= | look | truly |
| | Translation | If you see a tree growing from my grave. Don't pull it out. But look after it until it bears fruit." |
| | | Translation | They waited and the father died, and the child went to bury his father. |
| | | Translation | But he didn't forget his father's story. |
| | | Translation | He waited a while then he went to his father's grave. But he didn't see any tree growing out of his father's grave. |
| | | Translation | He stayed until he went back to the grave and saw a small tree growing from his father's head. |
| | | Translation | And he looked after it until that tree bore fruit, and it was a coconut. |
Text view • Utterance view
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