Translation exercise - children

I got this from the egroups website a while ago and finally got
around to having a go at it. I couldn't discover who posted it
(snipped the text from a response) sorry! It resonates with things
I've recently been writing about Valdyan culture - it could be a text
for the feast day of Timoine, the goddess of beginnings.

>    "a great freedom for all the children, and that they won't tell
>    us what to eat and what to think. that they won't ask us to do
>    what we don't want to, and that they won't say things that we
>    don't understand. that all the children will go up into the
>    trees and that all the adults will become small!"

This is the Valdyan:

   lesneni alea erin moy, ani so na groneseyt ni cusali croneyn ni
   cusali rastineyn. ani dila na bycheseyt sali dila napurynan, na
   layneseyt so sali na li rastayn. lesni alea reshinan hineseyt
   salni alea so rhaseseyt!


And taken apart:

(if you don't understand my admittedly idiosyncratic glossing style,
please ask!)


lesneni      alea   erin     moy,    ani    so   na   groneseyt
child-dat-p  P3pA   freedom  great,  P1p-O  and  NEG  tell-3p-inc-SBJ
to children  all    freedom  great,  us     and  not  they're going to tell

ni      cusali      croneyn       ni   cusali      rastineyn.
NEG     Q-P3indN-O  eat-1p-SBJ    NEG  Q-P3indN-O  think-1p-SBJ
neither what        we should eat nor  what        we should think.

ani    dila    na   bycheseyt             sali       dila
P1p-O  do-INF  NEG  require-3p-inc-SBJ    P3indN-O   do-INF
us     to do   not  they're going to ask  something  to do

napurynan,       na  layneseyt             so  sali       na   li
NEG-want-1p-PRS  NEG say-3p-inc-SBJ        and P3indN-O   NEG  P3pN-O
we don't want,   not they're going to say  and something  not  it

rastayn.            lesni        alea   reshinen    hineseyt
understand-1p-PRS   child-nom-p  P3pA   tree-ill-p  climb-3p-inc-SBJ
we understand.      children     all    into trees  are going to climb

salni        alea  so   rhaseseyt!
adult-nom-p  P3pA  and  diminish-3p-inc-SBJ
adults       all   and  are going to become small


Note that when clauses are joined by "and", the conjunction follows
the first constituent: _ani so na groneseyt_ "and they're not going
to tell us".

In a negative sentence, the verb always requires a negation, even if
other things are negated: _ani na groneseyt ni cusali croneyn ni
cusali rastineyn_ "they're *not* going to tell us *neither* what to
eat *nor* what to think".

I've used the subjunctive (irrealis; used for uncertainty) inceptive
for all the "that" clauses, because the (minimal) context seemed to
suggest that rather than the future indicative. The inceptive in
itself (marked by -es-) usually means that something is about to
begin, or is just beginning: _lea daysenat_ "it's raining", _lea
daysenesat_ "it's starting to rain", "it's going to rain presently".

   Irina