| From: | The Gray Wizard <dbell@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 29, 1999, 19:14 |
In amman iar
'I don't wait for a sign to show'
'I receive the joy of this moment'
'I don't fear evil beyond today'
'And I look at goodness with marvel'
uelivas an taithiren vavand eresteliliel
elivas ani valin nerle asillission ernetiel
uelivas en orvandun orverinian aur lanerthil adhla
na elivas an mandar erthiriel cotromme
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1PER 1st Person personal pronoun
DEF Identifiable definite determiner: used when the speaker presupposes
that the hearer can uniquely identify the referent
PTDET Proximal temporal determiner
PTP Patient/Theme Particle: part of the predicate inflection that marks
the presence of a patientive/thematic argument
NOM Nominative case
ABS Absolutive case
DAT Dative case
GEN Genitive case
DESC Descriptive adjective
SIZE Adjective of size
AGE Adjective of age
MANNADV Adverb of manner
TEMPADV Adverb of time
TPP Temporal postposition
AGT Agent: used both for the agentive predicate inflection and the
pronominal cross-reference
PAT patient: pronominal cross reference
THM Theme: pronominal cross reference
ACTN Action: marks the verb class of the lexical verb
PROC Process: marks the verb class of the lexical verb
NEG Negative polarity
ASS Assertive modality
PRES Present tense
HAB Habitual aspect
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I don't wait for a sign to show
uelivas an taithiren vavand eresteliliel
(ner-0) u-el-iv-as an taithir-en ve-avand er-estelilo-ie-l
(1PER:NOM) NEG:ASS:HAB:PRES PTP sign:DAT DESC:show AGT:wait:AGT/THM:ACTN
I do not sign showing wait
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I receive the joy of this moment
elivas ani valin nerle asillission ernetiel
(ner-0) el-iv-as an i valin-0 ner-le asillis-ion
(1PER:NOM) ASS:HAB:PRES PTP DEF joy:ABS PTDET moment:GEN
I do the joy this moment's
er-neto-ie-l
AGT:receive:AGT/THM:ACTN
receive
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I don't fear evil beyond today
uelivas en orvandun orverinian aur lanerthil adhla
u-el-iv-as en (ner-0) orvandun-0 orverino-ia-n aur la-nerthil
NEG:ASS:HAB:PRES PTP (1PER:NOM) evil:ABS fear:PAT/THM:PROC day AGE:this
do not I evil fear today
adh-la
time after:TPP
beyond
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And I look at goodness with marvel
na elivas an mandar erthiriel cotromme
na (ner-0) el-iv-as an mandar-0 er-tiro-ie-l
and (1PER:NOM) ASS:HAB:PRES PTP good:ABS AGT:look:AGT/THM:ACTN
and I do goodness look
cotron-me
wonder:MANNADV
with marvel
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David
David. E. Bell
The Gray Wizard
dbell@graywizard.net
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards
for they are subtle and quick to anger"
JRRT