Sentence #80
Sedetosa bese madedi genesa.
- sede
- stand
- -to
- -DP+REP
- =sa
- =that.3A
- bese
- uncle
- madedi
- grandmother
- gene
- elder
- =sa
- =that.3A
He was my grandmother’s uncle.
Note the distant past plus reported evidential. In other words, the narrator has never met this person, only been told of him, so he's probably a spirit, too.
This sentence is part of Wusu Poto Kunosece (The Time I Was Sick).
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.