Re: Nawan a Praleyo - Praleyo is dead.

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:30:35 +1200, Wesley Parish
<wes.parish@...> wrote:

I'm having some trouble following this part. Perhaps some complete
interlinears would help me?

Jeff J.

> consequently, complex sentence structures can be broken down into two
> forms:
>
>one where the consequence of the action is yet more action, in which case
>there is a set of particles to carry over from SVO to SVO;
>
> the other where the action concludes in a placing or positioning of some
> sort (emotions are considered stative), or a placing/positioning results
> in an action, where a simple conjugation indicates that the topic of the
> SVO and the VS are the same -
> |En tref ma li' ierrat di nan a en ierrat|
> = I went to the hill and on the hill I sat.
> |Aiator a li' tua en di li' tref ma u vaiti'anor u fait un en.|
> = The midwife's daughter loves me and so went to a village of my kin.
> ( |u| and |un| are partitive prepositions/indefinite articles.)
>
>If one were to say "because she was looking for me" one would need to add
>|iam u te li' vaniro ma un en|, the particle cluster |iam| = for |u| = such
>|te| = that, meaning "because".
>
> |li' | is both "the" when it preposes a noun, and "he", and "she" on its
> own.
>
>Wesley Parish
>--
>Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
>You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
>Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
>I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

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