Interlinear glossed text068| Recording date | 1998-09-30 |
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| Speaker age | 40 |
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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 | But on Erakor island, were there moves (against independence)? |
| independent
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| independent | | independence:BI |
| | Translation | Okay, there was, in 1980, when we got independence. |
| independent
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| independent | | independence:BI |
| | Translation | Those from Erakor didn't support independence at all. |
| | | Translation | And they caused some big problems, did some things in town that weren't right at all. |
| rupuetlu
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| ru= | puet | -lu | | 3PL.RS= | pull | -fully |
| | Translation | They went to town and pulled down the flag which the government had put around the town. |
| Rupuetlua
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| ru= | puet | -lu | -a | | 3PL.RS= | pull | -fully | -TS |
| | Translation | They pulled it down. |
| | | Translation | And some groups threw dynamite at Radio Vanuatu. |
| | | Translation | It made many old people scared and they ran away, some jumped into the sea, where Fung Kuei's store is. |
| | | Translation | Some went for a swim in the sea there. |
| | | Translation | Some ran to Radio Vanuatu. some ran to the lagoon. |
| rusm̃olir
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| ru= | sm̃ol | -i | -r | | 3PL.RS= | stuff | -TS | -3PL.OBJ |
| | Translation | And the police held some and they-. They stuck them in gaol. |
| independent
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| independent | | independence:BI |
| | Translation | This village? Erakor? Yes, Erakor island didn't support independence. |
| | | Translation | They were strong because some French people had tricked them and made them go together on the French side. |
| independen
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| independent | | independence:BI |
| | Translation | And they made it so they didn't support independence. |
| independent
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| independent | | independence:BI |
independent
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| independent | | independence:BI |
| | Translation | But later, when we got independence, they supported independence. |
| | | Translation | And today we can see we are free. |
| upiatlaken
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| u= | piatlak | -e | -n | | 1PL.ex.RS= | have | -TS | -3SG.OBJ |
umalki
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| u= | mal | -ki | | 2PL.RS= | not want | -TR |
independent
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| independent | | independence:BI |
| | Translation | Before independence we thought it would be no good, but today we find that it is okay. |
| kolonialism
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| kolonialism | | colonialism:BI |
rupregsaki
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| ru= | pregsa | -ki | | 3PL.RS= | spoil | -TR |
| | Translation | Because then it was a colonial attitude that was no good for the people's minds. |
| rusapotkir
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| ru= | sapot | -ki | -r | | 3PL.RS= | support:BI | -TR | -3PL.OBJ |
| | Translation | They tricked people and made people support them. |
| | | Translation | But later we found that it was wrong. |
| | | Translation | And today we are free. |
| umuurin
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| u= | muur | -i | -n | | 2PL.RS= | want | -TS | -3SG.OBJ |
independent
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| independent | | independence:BI |
| | Translation | We can do what we want because we got our independence. |
Text view • Utterance view
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