A Bird Story

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	This story is based on a wordless picture book: Mercer Mayer. 1974. Two Moral Tales. New York: Four Winds Press.
(1)	shiru-tui-gwaa-ga           mici-kara     booshi    tu-ti                       iku-tan.
	white-bird-DIM-NOM  road-ABL    hat         take.away-and*¹   go-PROG*²
	'a white bird had found a hat on the street.'
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	*¹ combining two verbs in a temporal sequence   *² verb stem + tan = past, imperfective, progressive, sensory evidental mood (sight only)
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(2)	unu  booshi   tuj-aai               kan-ti            acc-oo-ta-gutu
	that  hat        pick.up-and*¹   put.on-and    walk-DUR*²-PST-therefore*³
	'he was walking with the hat on his head'
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	*¹ same as -ti, but more emphasis on the time flow that the proceeding verb/action occurs before the following verb/action, there is a variant form, aani   *² oo = imperfective, durative   *³ tan + gutu = tagutu
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(3)	kuru-tui-ga             uri    nnz-aani     niaa-ran   ndi           ic-i             warat-oo-tan.
	black-bird-NOM   that  see-and*¹   fit-NEG   COMP   say-and*²    laugh-DUR-PST
	'a black bird saw him and laughed by saying it doesn't look good on you.'
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	*¹ the variant form of aai   *² same as -ti, conjugation irregular
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(4)	shiru-tui-ja            wazi-ti              booshi    shiti-ti                    kee-ti-nz-a-gutu
	white-bird-TOP    get.angry-and   hat          throw.away-and    return-and-go-PST-therefore
	'because the white bird got angry, threw the hat away, and left the place'
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(5)	kuru-tui-ga             unu  booshi   tui-tan.
	black-bird-NOM   that  hat        pick.up-PROG
	'the black bird picked it up.'
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(6)	an-s-a-gutu                    shiru-tui-ja            mata    keetic-aani
	so-do-PST-therefore     white-bird-TOP    again    come.back-and
	'as he did so, the white bird came back again and'
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(7)	uri-ja          waa-mun-du        ja-gutu               keesh-ee               ndi          ic-a-gutu
	this-TOP    my-stuff-FOC     COP-therefore   give.back-IMP     COMP    say-PST-therefore
	'told him that this is mine and give it back, so'
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(8)	kuru-tui-ja             shiru-tui-nkai        booshi    keec-an.
	black-bird-TOP    white-bird-DAT    hat         give.back-PST.
	'the black bird gave the hat back to the white bird.'
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(9)	an-su-gutu          booshi-nu   naaka-nkai-ja
	so-do-therefore  hat-GEN    inside-LOC-TOP
	'as he does so, inside the hat'
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(10)	kuru-tui      kuuga-nu    shiri-ti        kwa-gwaa-ga         icc-oo-tan                 di-nu                kutu-ja-tan.
	black-bird  egg-NOM  hatch-and  child-DIM-NOM   be.inside-DUR-PST  COMP-GEN  event-COP-PST
	'it was a story that a black bird's egg hatched, and there was a chick.'