Sentence #21
Nome sedetosananu yenne doŋiŋi, kuppe sedetosananu lada todudu, kuno dape sedetosananu doŋibuduŋi gosone.
- nome
- come.out
- sede
- PROG
- -to
- -DP+REP
- =sana
- =that+PL.3A
- =nu
- =N4
- yenne
- pair
- doŋi
- eye
- =ŋi
- =REFL
- kuppe
- throw
- sede
- PROG
- -to
- -DP+REP
- =sana
- =that+PL.3A
- =nu
- =N4
- lada
- sky
- todudu
- surface+to
- kuno
- have
- dape
- ITER
- sede
- PROG
- -to
- -DP+REP
- =sana
- =that+PL.3A
- =nu
- =N4
- doŋibudu
- eye-socket
- =ŋi
- =REFL
- gosone
- hollow+via
They were pulling out their own eyes, they were throwing them to the sky, they were getting them back to their eye-sockets.
Three clauses, one after the other. Bodyparts are a subclass of class 4 nouns that are inalienably possessed. That is indicated by the pronominal clitic attached to them.
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.