Sentence #19
Dunnotodabena Peyada cisena Taboni yisenabena.
- dunno
- see
- -to
- -DP+REP
- =da
- =this.3A
- =bena
- =that+PL.3O
- Peya
- Coyote
- =da
- =this.3A
- cisena
- children
- Taboni
- Cottontail
- yisena
- child+PL
- =bena
- =that+PL.3O
Coyote saw the children of Cottontail.
Tagging: both A and O are tagged. Both A and O are class 1 rational animate nouns. Class 1 nouns cannot be possessed, but they can participate in an associative construction. The associative construction pairs a noun with a rational animate associate as N1 N-associate. Any classifier in the construction would reference the first noun. Here we have N1 as cisena followed by the associate Taboni, a proper name, followed by the classifier yisena for children, all tagged as O.
This sentence is part of Peyada, Cisena Taboni Yisena (Coyote and Cottontail’s Children).
Key
Subject Phrases (A, S, CS) are double underlined.
Object Phrases (O, CC) are single underlined.
Peripheral Phrases are dashed.
Verb Phrases are unmarked.
Clauses are set off by vertical lines.