Sentence #2

Cudu dunno-da-sedelamigo meli-lewa yisida.

cudu
rabbit
dunno
see
da
GO&
sede
PROG
-la
-RP+DIR
=mi
=1PLex.A
=go
=N3
meli
son
lewa
1SG.A
yisi
child
=da
=this.3A

My son and I were hunting rabbits.

The noun phrase meli-lewa yisida "my son" only partially renames the actual A argument =mi "we (exclusive)". The noun phrase is furthermore tagged with =da and will be referenced in the next sentence.

Kinship association used the pattern [kinship term - associate]. Here the associate is the first person full pronoun lewa.

This sentence is part of Dunnolamiwa (What We Saw).

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.

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