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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small

From:takatunu <takatunu@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 11, 2004, 20:07
In Tunu:

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
"Taka wabaijiwaminai buki yu akaimujirai mujumuwakunai buni wamawara."

Interlinear:

Taka w-a-bai-jiwami-nai buki yu a-kai-muji-rai muju-muwaku-nai buni
w-a-mawara.
Man who-PREDICATE-makes-displacing-TRANSITIVE mountain PAUSE
PREDICATE-does-beginning-AGENTIVE carrying-away-TRANSITIVE stone
who-PREDICATE-unbig.

Of course the words muji ("start") and muju ("carry") had to meet randomly
in this first exercise...:-)

Regarding Tebor's question about the "by/with" of "to start/begin by/with",
Tunu analyzes it as an attributive, not as an instrument or a manner:
"The man does the removal of a mountain, the beginning of which is the
carrying away of small stones."

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