lecslab/glosslm-corpus-split huggingface dataset:
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: iya nï imba p-e i wap
Glosses: yes 1SG night be-DEP go.PFV be.PST
Translation: Yes, I was going at night.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: imba p-e ma-n-e
Glosses: night be-DEP go-IPFV-DEP
Translation: [I] was going at night and …’ [ulwa037_01:29]
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: Kapos wapata anda ma=tï inda-e wap
Glosses: [name] old SG.DIST 3SG.OBJ=take walk-IPFV be.PST
Translation: That old [man] Kapos used to carry it.’ [ulwa014_45:35]
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: ndï=ale-p ndï=ale-p ndï=ale-p yawt tï ndï=we-[u-]p
Glosses: 3PL=scrape-PFV 3PL=scrape-PFV 3PL=scrape-PFV machete take 3PL=cut-[put-]PFV
Translation: [They] scraped and scraped and scraped them, [and then] got machetes and cut them.’ [ulwa014_59:39]
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: kwa Yalamba wa wap ma=wap ma=wap ma=wap
Glosses: just Korokopa village be.PST 3SG.OBJ=be.PST 3SG.OBJ=be.PS 3SG.OBJ=be.PST
Translation: [He] just stayed at Korokopa village for quite some time.’ [ulwa037_19:48]
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: mï minyam tï ambï=lï-p na-i-e
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ feces take SG.REFL=put-PFV DETR-go.PFV-DEP
Translation: He kept soiling himself.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: Wopata ma=p-en maka=p-e wombïn ndï=n ni-e i
Glosses: [place] 3SG.OBJ=be-NMLZ thus=be-DEP work 3PL=OBL act-DEP go.PFV
Translation: Those who lived in Wopata were like this, doing work, for some time.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: unan awal ma=ta-n-e na-i na-i na-i na-i
Glosses: 1PL.INCL yesterday 3SG.OBJ=say-IPFV-DEP DETR-go.PFV DETR-go.PFV DETR-go.PFV DETR-go.PFV
Translation: We kept discussing it yesterday, over and over.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: unan wombïn=n ni-ta ma ma ma
Glosses: 1PL.INCL work=OBL act-COND go go go
Translation: And when we work on and on …
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: nï-ambi Madang wap mbï-i-e nï maka Wombasame mï Wonmelma min=ta-p
Glosses: 1SG-TOP [place] be.PST here-go.PFV-DEP 1SG thus [name] 3SG.SUBJ [name] 3DU=say-PFV
Translation: As for me, when I came from Madang, I talked about Wombasame and Wonmelma.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: ma=tï lï-p na amun wolka kwa nga=ul ni-e
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=take put-PFV and now again one SG.PROX=with act-IPFV
Translation: [I] left it and now in turn [I] am making this one.’ (na < TP na ‘and’) [ulwa015_01:41]
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: u imba p-e i o ane p-e i
Glosses: 2SG night be-DEP go.PFV or sun be-DEP go.PFV
Translation: Did you go at night or go during the day?’ (o < TP o ‘or’)
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: tem ndï ndï-nji ngin ma=top inim [lï-]p-e wambana nungol ko=tï-n-e mbay an ma=la-nda
Glosses: time 3PL 3PL-POSS net 3SG.OBJ=throw water [put-]PFV-DEP fish child INDF=take-PFV-DEP will 1PL.EXCL 3SG.OBJ=eat-IRR
Translation: Whenever they threw their net into the water and got a small fish, [then] we would eat it.’ (tem < TP taim ‘time, when’, mbay < TP bai ‘will’) [ulwa032_01:36]
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: maski u ma awlop ma=ka lo-wo-nda
Glosses: although 2SG go in.vain 3SG.OBJ=at IRR-sleep-IRR
Translation: Even if you go and get lost, [you] can sleep there.’ (maski < TP maski ‘although’) [ulwa029_02:54]
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: u mas ma=ta-n[a]
Glosses: 2SG must 3SG.OBJ=say-IRR
Translation: You should tell it!’ (mas < TP mas ‘should, must’)
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: un iken ma=wan uta-p ma ndï=n ma=nïkï-na
Glosses: 2PL may 3SG.OBJ=above grind-PFV go 3PL=OBL 3SG.OBJ=dig-IRR
Translation: You can clear over it and plant them there.’ (iken < TP i ken ‘may, can’)
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: nï-ambi nï sawe inim lopo-e
Glosses: 1SG-TOP 1SG HAB water wash-IPFV
Translation: As for me, I bathe.’ (sawe < TP save ‘know’; habitual marker)
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: ndï i aw=nï tambuwim
Glosses: 3PL go.PFV betel.nut=OBL taboo
Translation: They went and forbade [taking] the betel nut.’ (tambuiwim = TP tambuim) [ulwa014†]
Language: Tok Pisin ( translation)
Transcription: nï ta wa ma=n pilim
Glosses: 1SG already just 3SG.OBJ=OBL feel
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: un-nji yena un-nji ini=n paynim
Glosses: 2PL-POSS woman 2PL-POSS ground=OBL find
Translation: [They] are your women; [so] find your land!’ (payinim = TP painim) [ulwa014†]
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: ndï=n mboylim i ndï=ala ya ma=uta-p
Glosses: 3PL=OBL boil go.PFV 3PL=for coconut 3SG.OBJ=grind-PFV
Translation: [I] boiled them and ground a coconut for them.’ (mboylim = TP boilim) [ulwa014_17:31]
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: unan gaden ngala=n pinisim i-e
Glosses: 1PL.INCL garden PL.PROX=OBL finish go.PFV-DEP
Translation: We have finished these gardens.’ (pinisim, gaden = TP)
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: ala ndï=n labisim ma-na
Glosses: PL.DIST 3PL=OBL rubbish go-IRR
Translation: They will mess with them.’ (labisim = TP rabisim)
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: unan unan-nji grup nga=n pasim ma
Glosses: 1PL.INCL 1PL.INCL-POSS group SG.PROX=OBL tie go
Translation: Let’s form a group!’ (Literally `form our group’; pasim, grup = TP)
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ala ambla=ul lo-e ambla=n winim unda-e
Glosses: PL.DIST PL.REFL=with go-DEP PL.REFL=OBL win go-IPFV
Translation: They go around with each other, competing with each other.’ (winim = TP)
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ya i mas tokples nga=n laynim unda
Glosses: yeah PRED must tokples SG.PROX=OBL teach go
Translation: Yeah, [we] have to teach [them] this tokples [= vernacular].’ (laynim = TP lainim; ya, i, mas, tokples also = TP) [ulwa014_02:46]
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: u=alpim u-nji wombïn ma=n ni-nda
Glosses: 2SG=help 2SG-POSS work 3SG.OBJ=OBL act-IRR
Translation: [I] will help you do your work.’ (alpim = TP helpim) [ulwa031_00:55]
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: nungol ndï ma=alpim unda-e ma=ul inamba=n nji ndï=ina-e
Glosses: child 3PL 3SG.OBJ=help go-DEP 3SG.OBJ=with money=OBL thing 3PL=get-IPFV
Translation: The children are helping him buy things.’ (alpim = TP helpim)
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: nï ango tïki ankam kuma=n lukawtim=p-na
Glosses: 1SG NEG again person some=OBL look.after=COP-IRR
Translation: I won’t look after other people anymore.’ (lukawtim = TP lukautim)
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: tembi anda wa nji=n anma=nï lukawtim=p-en kom
Glosses: bad SG.DIST just thing=OBL good=OBL look.after=COP-NMLZ NEG
Translation: That bad one just doesn’t look after things well.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: way inom
Glosses: turtle mother
Translation: The mother of the turtle.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: njukuta anda=o
Glosses: small SG.DIST=VOC
Translation: It was small!
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: inom mï
Glosses: mother 3SG.SUBJ
Translation: A woman –
Language: Pondi (English translation)
Transcription: iwa ala-n inim anda=aw-e umbenam unda-e ndï=i we ndï=in u kundan nïmban ndï=wali-e ndï=kuk nji aw-e
Glosses: basket PL.DIST=OBL water SG.DIST=put.IPFV-DEP morning 3PL=go.PFV go-DEP then 3PL=in from eel fish.species 3PL=hit-DEP 3PL=gather thing put.IPFV-DEP
Translation: [She] would put fish traps in the water, go to them in the morning, and then, from within them, kill eels and fish and gather them into something [i.e., a basket].
Language: Pondi (English translation)
Transcription: ndï=kuk nji aw-e mï wolka i ndï=n u-p
Glosses: 3PL=gather thing put.IPFV-DEP 3SG.SUBJ again go.PFV 3PL=OBL put-PFV
Translation: After gathering them into something, she again went and set them.
Language: Pondi (English translation)
Transcription: i-e wolka i ndï=kuk-aw
Glosses: go.PFV-DEP again go.PFV 3PL=gather-put.IPFV
Translation: Having gone, [she] again went and gathered them [= the fish].
Language: Pondi (English translation)
Transcription: ndï=i we i-e way nungol ko=tï-n
Glosses: 3PL=go.PFV then go.PFV-DEP turtle child INDF=take-PFV
Translation: [She] went to them, and having gone, [she] caught a little turtle.
Language: Pondi (English translation)
Transcription: way nungol mï iwa ma=in-e
Glosses: turtle child 3SG.SUBJ basket 3SG.OBJ=in-IPFV
Translation: The little turtle was in the trap.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma-nji nungol ma=tï ambï=n num ma=lï-p
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ-POSS child 3SG.OBJ=take SG.REFL=OBL canoe 3SG.OBJ=put-PFV
Translation: [She] got her child and put [him] in her canoe.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: alum ulwa=p numan ulwa=p-en=o
Glosses: child nothing=COP husband nothing=COP-NMLZ=VOC
Translation: [She] didn’t have a child – didn’t have a husband.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma-we awa i-en
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ-PART.INT INT go.PFV-NMLZ
Translation: She herself used to go out alone.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: yanat ma=tï nungol ma=tï ambï=n num ma=lï-p
Glosses: daughter 3SG.OBJ=take child 3SG.OBJ=take SG.REFL=OBL canoe 3SG.OBJ=put-PFV
Translation: [She] put her daughter – her son into her canoe.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: wolka ma=ul i iwa ndï=i we i-e way mï ma=tï-n-e ma=tï nungol ma=na-n-e
Glosses: again 3SG.OBJ=with go.PFV basket 3PL=go.PFV then go.PFV-DEP turtle 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=take-PFV-DEP 3SG.OBJ=take child 3SG.OBJ=give-PFV-DEP
Translation: [She] in turn went with him, went to the fish traps and then, having gone – the turtle – when [she] got it, [she] gave it to her son.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: nungol mï i-kali ma=si ma=tï uta anda=in-lï-p
Glosses: child 3SG.SUBJ hand-send 3SG.OBJ=push 3SG.OBJ=take shell SG.DIST=in-put-PFV
Translation: The son grabbed it and put it in a [coconut] shell.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=tï uta anda=lï-p ma=ala unda-e
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=take shell SG.DIST=put-PFV 3SG.OBJ=for go-IPFV
Translation: [He] put it in the shell and started going around for the sake of it.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=ala wambana mïnwata ndï=moko-e ma=na-n-e
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=for fish rotten 3PL=take-DEP 3SG.OBJ=give-PFV-DEP
Translation: For the sake of it, [he] gave rotten fish to it.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï ndï=ama-e na-i na-i
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ 3PL=eat-DEP DETR-go.PFV DETR-go.PFV
Translation: It ate them for quite some time.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way mï na-i ambi na-p
Glosses: turtle 3SG.SUBJ DETR-go.PFV big DETR-be
Translation: And the turtle went and got big.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: inom mï ma=ul na-i
Glosses: mother 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=with DETR-go.PFV
Translation: The mother went with him [= her son].
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: inom ma=ul i-en ma-ambi nungol mï ambi na-p
Glosses: mother 3SG.OBJ=with go.PFV-NMLZ 3SG.OBJ-TOP child 3SG.SUBJ big DETR-be
Translation: And as for the mother who went around with him, [her] son got big.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ambi na-p-e way mï luke ambi na-p
Glosses: big DETR-be-DEP turtle 3SG.SUBJ too big DETR-be
Translation: [He] got big and the turtle got big, too.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: ambi na-p-e nogat
Glosses: big DETR-be-DEP no
Translation: [It] got big, but no!
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: wolka wo-p ma=ul i-e nogat
Glosses: again sleep-PFV 3SG.OBJ=with go.PFV-DEP no
Translation: Again, the next day, [the mother] went with him [= the son], but no!
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: mï i-kali way nungol ma=n uta ma=ul si
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ hand-send turtle child 3SG.OBJ=OBL shell 3SG.OBJ=with push
Translation: He held the little turtle with the [coconut] shell.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: amangala anda kwa i wapa li ka i
Glosses: eagle SG.DIST just go.PFV wing down let go.PFV
Translation: But an eagle just came, came with [its] wings pointing down.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: kwa ma-ngusuwa
Glosses: just 3SG.OBJ-poor
Translation: Just, the poor thing –
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: num ma=u nungol ma=n kwa way ma=ul tï-n
Glosses: canoe 3SG.OBJ=from child 3SG.OBJ=OBL just turtle 3SG.OBJ=with take-PFV
Translation: [The eagle] got the boy with the turtle from the canoe.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=tï i ma=tï nowe anda=u ma=lï-p
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=take go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=take sago.species SG.DIST=from 3SG.OBJ=put-PFV
Translation: And [it] brought him and put him on a sago palm.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=tï nowe anda=u ma=lï-p-e mï ma=wat p-e
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=take sago.species SG.DIST=from 3SG.OBJ=put-PFV-DEP 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=atop be-IPFV
Translation: Having put him on the sago palm, he [= the boy] stayed on top of it.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï ma=wat p-e way ma=tï ambï=ul inda-e
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=atop be-DEP turtle 3SG.OBJ=take SG.REFL=with walk-IPFV
Translation: While he was staying on top of it, [he] carried the turtle around with himself.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way mï na-i ambi na-p-e inom mï wa ma na ta-p ma sal sa-p
Glosses: turtle 3SG.SUBJ DETR-go.PFV big DETR-be-DEP mother 3SG.SUBJ just 3SG.OBJ talk say-PFV 3SG.OBJ tear cry-PFV
Translation: After the turtle went and got big, the mother just spoke about him and cried about him [= the boy].
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï na-i
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ DETR-go.PFV
Translation: He went.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ay nungol mï ulum ma=u ma=p-e
Glosses: ay child 3SG.SUBJ palm 3SG.OBJ=from 3SG.OBJ=be-IPFV
Translation: Ay, the child was living within [a crevice in] the sago palm.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way mï ma=u ma=p ma=ul mï=na-wap
Glosses: turtle 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=from 3SG.OBJ=be 3SG.OBJ=with 3SG.SUBJ=DETR-be.PST
Translation: The turtle was [also] within it, living with him.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=wap ma=wap way mï keka ambi ngata na-p
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=be.PST 3SG.OBJ=be.PST turtle 3SG.SUBJ completely big grand DETR-be
Translation: [They] stayed and stayed there, and the turtle got really huge.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way mï keka ambi na-p-e imba p-e mï ma=ul awlu unum kwa ma=in u
Glosses: turtle 3SG.SUBJ completely big DETR-be-DEP night be-DEP 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=with step crevice one 3SG.OBJ=in from
Translation: Once the turtle was really big, one night, he [= the boy] stepped out with it from within one crevice [to another].
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: awlu ata-u unum kwa ma=in u lo-wo-nda ma-n-e
Glosses: step up-from crevice one 3SG.OBJ=in from IRR-sleep-IRR go-IPFV-DEP
Translation: Having stepped up into another crevice, [he] was going to sleep [there].
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: lo-wo-nda ma-n-e way mï ma=ala na=i
Glosses: IRR-sleep-IRR go-IPFV-DEP turtle 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=for DETR-go.PFV
Translation: As [he] was going to sleep, the turtle went for his sake.
Language: Unknown language ( translation)
Transcription: li na-i
Glosses: down DETR-go.PFV
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ulum ma nambï ka li-i wandam na-i
Glosses: palm 3SG.OBJ skin on down-go.PFV jungle DETR-go.PFV
Translation: [It] went down along the bark of the sago palm and went toward the jungle.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: li wandam ma=i ma=lo-p
Glosses: down jungle 3SG.OBJ=go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=go-PFV
Translation: [It] went down to the jungle and went around.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=lo-p im-pul ko=tï-n ma=si ambï awi lï-p
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=go-PFV wood-piece INDF=take-PFV 3SG.OBJ=push SG.REFL shoulder put-PFV
Translation: [It] went around, got a piece of wood, and put it on its shoulder.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=si ata-u ambï mutoma wat-lï-p
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=push up-from SG.REFL backbone atop-put-PFV
Translation: [It] put it [= the wood] up onto its back.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ata i wap wolka ma=tï i li-i
Glosses: up go.PFV be.PST again 3SG.OBJ=take go.PFV down-go.PFV
Translation: Having gone up, [the turtle] again brought it [= the wood] down.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=tï i li na-i ma=tï li-i wandam na-i ina-ka-wana
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=take go.PFV down DETR-go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=take down-go.PFV jungle DETR-go.PFV liver-in-feel
Translation: [It] brought it, went down, brought it down, went to the jungle, and thought.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï ambï=wana ma=ta a
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ SG.REFL=feel 3SG.OBJ=say ah
Translation: It thought to itself and said: “Ah!”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: nï ta tata tï-n ma=ul li i-na ma-n-e
Glosses: 1SG already papa take-PFV 3SG.OBJ=with down come-IRR go-IPFV-DEP
Translation: “I’m already able to get papa and come down with him.”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: nï tata tï-n ma=ul li i-na
Glosses: 1SG papa take-PFV 3SG.OBJ=with down come-IRR
Translation: “So I’ll get papa and come down with him!”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=kï-p
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=say-PFV
Translation: [It] thought this.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ango amun=p-e
Glosses: NEG now=COP-DEP
Translation: But not immediately.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ango amun=p-e ata-i ma=tï-na
Glosses: NEG now=COP-DEP up-go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=take-IRR
Translation: [It] wouldn’t go up and get him immediately.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: kop ma=ala i inim i i wa ndï li-i ndï=u-l-e i apa ko=angom-lï-p
Glosses: just 3SG.OBJ=for go.PFV water go.PFV go.PFV village 3PL down-go.PFV 3PL=from-go-DEP go.PFV house INDF=pull.out-put-PFV
Translation: [It] just went for his sake, went to the water, went, went down to the villages, went around in them, went, and pulled out a house.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: apa ko=angom-lï-p wa ma=lo-p
Glosses: house INDF=pull.out-put-PFV village 3SG.OBJ=cut-PFV
Translation: [It] pulled out a house and cleared a village.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: keka wandam ndï way ma-awa wandam ndï=lo-p
Glosses: completely jungle 3PL turtle 3SG.OBJ-INT jungle 3PL=cut-PFV
Translation: Completely, the gardens – the turtle itself cut the gardens.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: mïnal o mil o utam o nongontam
Glosses: taro or sugar or yam or kaukau
Translation: [Whether it be] taro or sugarcane or yam or kaukau [= sweet potato] –
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: mï keka ndï-n u-p
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ completely 3PL=OBL put-PFV
Translation: It planted them all.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: ndï keka ambi=p
Glosses: 3PL completely big=COP
Translation: They [= the crops] were really big.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: wowal lamndu mï ndï=tï-n ndï=tï i ndï=kuk wandam ma=u-p
Glosses: chicken pig 3SG.SUBJ 3PL=take-PFV 3PL=take go.PFV 3PL=gather jungle 3SG.OBJ=put-PFV
Translation: Chickens and pigs – it got them, brought them, and gathered them into the garden.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: apa ma=imbam-u-p
Glosses: house 3SG.OBJ=under-put-PFV
Translation: [The turtle] put [the livestock] under the house.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ande
Glosses: ok
Translation: OK.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï wolka im-pul ma=tï-n ma=tï ambï mutoma wat-lï-p-e
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ again wood-piece 3SG.OBJ=take-PFV 3SG.OBJ=take SG.REFL back atop-put-PFV-DEP
Translation: It again got a piece of wood, got it and put it on its shell.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=ul i ata-i ulum ma=iya ata-i
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=with go.PFV up-go.PFV palm 3SG.OBJ=toward up=go.PFV
Translation: [It] went with it, went up, went up the sago palm.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=tï na-i li-i wandam i ambï=wana
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=take DETR-go.PFV down-go.PFV jungle go.PFV SG.REFL=feel
Translation: [The turtle] bought it [= the wood] down, went to the jungle, and thought to itself.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=ta nï ata ma ma=tï-n ma=ul li i-na
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=say 1SG up go 3SG.OBJ=take-PFV 3SG.OBJ=with down come-IRR
Translation: [It] thought: “I shall go up, get him, and come down with him.”
Language: Unknown language ( translation)
Transcription: al ma=tï-n
Glosses: net 3SG.OBJ=take-PFV
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: al mï apa mï al anda ma=in wap-en anda
Glosses: net 3SG.SUBJ house 3SG.SUBJ net SG.DIST 3SG.OBJ=in be.PST-NMLZ SG.DIST
Translation: The mosquito net, the house – there was a mosquito net in it.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=n ma=ul tï i
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=OBL 3SG.OBJ=with take go.PFV
Translation: [The turtle] brought it [= the mosquito net] with it [= the house].
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=n ma=ul tï i ma=tane-lï-p-ap-e mï imba p-e na-i mï na-wow-e
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=OBL 3SG.OBJ=with take go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=stand-put-PFV-PFV-DEP 3SG.SUBJ night be-DEP DETR-go.PFV 3SG.SUBJ DETR-sleep-IPFV
Translation: After [the turtle] had brought it [= the mosquito net] with it [= the house] and stood it up, it went at night, while he [= the man] was sleeping.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: unum p-e ma=in p-e wow-e mï i mokum na-i i ma=imbam i
Glosses: crevice be-DEP 3SG.OBJ=in be-DEP sleep-DEP 3SG.SUBJ go.PFV stealth DETR-go.PFV go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=under go.PFV
Translation: While [the man] was sleeping in the crevice, inside it, it [= the turtle] went, went stealthily, went, went under him.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=tï ata-u ambï mutam wat-lï-p
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=take up-from SG.REFL back atop-put-PFV
Translation: [The turtle] got him and put him up onto its back.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ankam ngata=n ambï mutam wat-lï-p
Glosses: person grand=OBL SG.REFL back atop-put-PFV
Translation: [It] put the huge person on its back.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ankam ngata=n ambï mutam wat-lï-p ande mokum ma=tï lo-e
Glosses: person grand=OBL SG.REFL back atop-put-PFV ok stealth 3SG.OBJ=take go-IPFV
Translation: Having put the huge man on its back, OK, [it] began bringing him carefully.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: na-i-e ulum ma nambï ka na-i li-i wandam na-i
Glosses: DETR-go.PFV-DEP palm 3SG.OBJ skin on DETR-go.PFV down-go.PFV jungle DETR-go.PFV
Translation: [It] went and went down the bark of the palm and went to the jungle.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=tï i ata apa ma=i ma=ul i
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=take go.PFV up house 3SG.OBJ=go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=with go.PFV
Translation: [It] brought him up to the house and went with him.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: al ma=in i ma=tï ma=in-lï-p
Glosses: net 3SG.OBJ=in go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=take 3SG.OBJ=in-put-PFV
Translation: [It] went into the mosquito net and put him inside it.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï al ma=in ka wo-p
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ net 3SG.OBJ=in at sleep-PFV
Translation: He slept in the mosquito net.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï al ma=in ka wo-p awlu an-mbï-u ina-ka-wana-p a
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ net 3SG.OBJ=in at sleep-PFV step out-here-from liver-in-feel-PFV ah
Translation: He slept in the mosquito net, came out, and thought: “Ah!”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: nï anjikaka li-i wap
Glosses: 1SG how down-go.PFV be.PST
Translation: “How did I come down like this?”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: lop ma=n wat wan ma=ka ma=p
Glosses: lie 3SG.OBJ=OBL ladder above 3SG.OBJ=let 3SG.OBJ=be
Translation: [The turtle] lay at the top of his ladder and stayed there.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: nï anjikaka li-i
Glosses: 1SG how down-go.PFV
Translation: “How did I get down like this?”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: a
Glosses: ah
Translation: “Ah!”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ina-ka-wana-e nï anjikaka li-i
Glosses: liver-in-feel-DEP 1SG how down-go.PFV
Translation: [He] was thinking: “How did I get down like this?”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: nï ata anda=wap nï anjikaka li-i-e
Glosses: 1SG up SG.DIST=be.PST 1SG how down-go.PFV-DEP
Translation: “I was up there, so how did I get down like this?”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: lïmndï way ma=ala
Glosses: eye turtle 3SG.OBJ=see
Translation: [He] saw the turtle.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: way nga ngusuwa nga=p-na-t-e mï ko mï mas-e
Glosses: turtle SG.PROX poor SG.PROX=be-IRR-SPEC-DEP 3SG.SUBJ just 3SG.SUBJ must-DEP
Translation: [And he thought:] “This turtle, the poor thing; it might be this [turtle] – it just; it must have – ”
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: ata i ko nï=tï-n nï=tï li-i wap
Glosses: up go.PFV just 1SG=take-PFV 1SG=take down-go-PFV be.PST
Translation: “[It] went up and just got me and brought me down.”
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: ma=kï-p ina-ka-wana-p
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=say-PFV liver-in-feel-PFV
Translation: [He] said it and thought.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: wolka na-wow-e mï ma=ala yana angla na-lo
Glosses: again DETR-sleep.IPFV-DEP 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=for woman await DETR-go
Translation: After again sleeping, it [= the turtle] went searching for a wife for him.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way nga wa ma=ala yana angla-lo-e
Glosses: turtle SG.PROX just 3SG.OBJ=for woman await-go-IPFV
Translation: This turtle was just searching for a wife for him.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï i apa ndï=in u lo-e i lïmndï ma=ala
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ go.PFV house 3PL=in from go-DEP go.PFV eye 3SG.OBJ=see
Translation: It went, went around inside the houses, went, and saw her.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: lïmndï ma=ala mokum al ma=in u ma=tï-n
Glosses: eye 3SG.OBJ=see stealth net 3SG.OBJ=in from 3SG.OBJ=take-PFV
Translation: [It] saw her and stealthily got her from out of [her] mosquito net.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=tï ambï mutam wat-lï-p ma=tï i
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=take SG.REF back atop-put-PFV 3SG.OBJ=take go.PFV
Translation: [It] got her onto its back and brought her.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=tï i itom ma=iya apa i
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=take go.PFV father 3SG.OBJ=toward house go.PFV
Translation: [It] brought her and went home to the man.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: itom ma=iya apa i ma=tï ma=kana-lï-p
Glosses: father 3SG.OBJ=toward house go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=take 3SG.OBJ=beside-put-PFV
Translation: [It] went home to the man and put her next to him.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=tï i-e keka ma=ul i ma=iya al ma=in i ma=tï moni-lï-p
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=take go.PFV-DEP completely 3SG.OBJ=with go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=toward net 3SG.OBJ=in go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=take among-put-PFV
Translation: Having brought her, [it] went all the way with her, went to him into [his] mosquito net, and put her within [it].
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï ma=ul wo-p
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=with sleep-PFV
Translation: She slept with him.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=ul wo-p-e yana mï tïnanga lïmndï wa ma=ala
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=with sleep-PFV-DEP woman 3SG.SUBJ arise eye just 3SG.OBJ=see
Translation: Having slept with him, the woman got up and noticed him.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: lïmndï ankam nga=ala
Glosses: eye person SG.PROX=see
Translation: [She] saw this person.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï keka sa-e wap sa-e wap sa-e wap sa-e wap keka awal p-e imba p-e wo-p
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ completely cry-DEP be.PST cry-DEP be.PST cry-DEP be.PST cry-DEP be.PST completely afternoon be-DEP night be-DEP sleep-PFV
Translation: And she cried and cried and cried throughout the afternoon, throughout the night, and into the next day.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: keka maka wap maka=p-e imba p-e wo-p
Glosses: completely thus be.PST thus=COP-DEP night be-DEP sleep-PFV
Translation: It was totally like that, like this, every night.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: inim iwïl lele ndï=tï-n
Glosses: water moon three 3PL=take-PFV
Translation: Three years – months passed.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: nï-awa ango kalam me nï i u-ngusuwa=lu i wap
Glosses: 1SG-INT NEG knowledge NEG 1SG go.PFV 2SG-poor=with go.PFV be.PST
Translation: “I really don’t know how I went and came to stay with you, you poor thing.”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: nï ango kalam me u anjikaka i wap
Glosses: 1SG NEG knowledge NEG 2SG how go.PFV be.PST
Translation: “I don’t know how you got here.”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: nï ango kalam me
Glosses: 1SG NEG knowledge NEG
Translation: “I don’t know.”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way nga tap u-ngusuwa tï i wap-ap-e
Glosses: turtle SG.PROX maybe 2SG-poor take go.PFV be.PST-PFV-DEP
Translation: “Maybe this turtle brought you, you poor thing.”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: awlop=p-en luwa anda ngunan ma=p
Glosses: in.vain=COP-NMLZ place SG.DIST 1DU.INCL 3SG.OBJ=be
Translation: “That strange place – we are in it.”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ngunan mbï na-na-p
Glosses: 1DU.INCL here DETR-DETR-be
Translation: “We are staying here.”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï na-sa-p-e mï ma=ala li-i lamndu ma=asa-p
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ DETR-cry-PFV-DEP 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=for down-go.PFV pig 3SG.OBJ=hit-PFV
Translation: After she cried, he went down for her and killed a pig.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: yeta mï ma=ala li-i lamndu ma=asa-p ma=nïkï-e ma=n u-p
Glosses: man 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=for down-go.PFV pig 3SG.OBJ=hit-PFV 3SG.OBJ=dig-DEP 3SG.OBJ=OBL put-PFV
Translation: The man went down for her, killed a pig, butchered it, and put it [in the house] for her.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=ul min ndï=mondo-p
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=with 3DU 3PL=dry-PFV
Translation: With her – the two dried them [= the butchered pieces of meat].
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ndï=mondo-e ndï=ama-e ndï=wat p-e
Glosses: 3PL=dry-DEP 3PL=eat-DEP 3PL=atop be-DEP
Translation: [They continued] drying them, eating them, and relying’ on them.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way nga min=ïn twa kana ma=p
Glosses: turtle SG.PROX 3DU=OBL hearth beside 3SG.OBJ=be
Translation: And this turtle stayed there with them next to the hearth.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way nga min=ïn twa kana ma=p-e mï na=n ma=ta
Glosses: turtle SG.PROX 3DU=OBL hearth beside 3SG.OBJ=be-DEP 3SG.SUBJ DETR=OBL 3SG.OBJ=say
Translation: And while this turtle stayed there with them next to the hearth, he [= the man] said to her:
Language: Unknown language ( translation)
Transcription: tsk
Glosses: tsk
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way nga mï tap u=tï-n u=tï i wap
Glosses: turtle SG.PROX 3SG.SUBJ maybe 2SG=take-PFV 2SG=take go.PFV be.PST
Translation: “This turtle, maybe he got you and brought you.”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: min=ïn twa kana ma=p-e min ama-e
Glosses: 3DU=OBL hearth beside 3SG.OBJ=be-DEP 3DU eat-IPFV
Translation: While [it] stayed with them there by the hearth, the two would eat.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mundu ndï=kuk ma=n aw-e mï ndï=ama-e
Glosses: food 3PL=gather 3GSG=OBL put.IPFV-DEP 3SG.SUBJ 3PL=eat-IPFV
Translation: [They] would gather food for it and it would eat them [= the items of food].
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ndï=ama-e na-i na-i way mï keka na-i ambi nïpat ngata na-p
Glosses: 3PL=eat-DEP DETR-go.PFV DETR-go.PFV turtle 3SG.SUBJ completely DETR-go.PFV big giant grand DETR-be
Translation: [It] ate them and ate them until the turtle totally went and got big, giant, huge.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way mï keka na-i ambi nïpat ngata na-p ande
Glosses: turtle 3SG.SUBJ completely DETR-go.PFV big huge giant DETR-be ok
Translation: The turtle completely went big, giant, huge, OK.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï ina-ka-wana-e
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ liver-in-feel-DEP
Translation: He was thinking –
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: i-ta tata mï ina-ka-wana-e mï=na=p-e
Glosses: go.PFV-COND papa 3SG.SUBJ liver-in-feel-DEP 3SG.SUBJ=DETR-be-DEP
Translation: If [he] went – the papa was thinking around there.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: min yena ma=ul mï=na-p min alum ndï=na-na-in
Glosses: 3DU woman 3SG.OBJ=with 3SG.SUBJ=DETR-be 3DU child 3PL=DETR-DETR-get
Translation: They – [he] stayed around there with his wife, and they had children.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: min alum ndï=na-na-in-e
Glosses: 3DU child 3PL=DETR-DETR-get-IPFV
Translation: They had children.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: e yeta u-we ko way ma na=n alum ndï=kï-na
Glosses: hey man 2SG-PART.INT just turtle 3SG.OBJ talk=OBL child 3PL=say-IRR
Translation: Hey, man, you yourself should have just told the children about the turtle!
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: un wana mbï-wap angos nga=n anjika-la-ka-na
Glosses: 2PL PROH here-be.PST what SG.PROX=OBL how.many-IRR-let-IRR
Translation: “Don’t do something [bad] to this [turtle] here!”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way mï nï min ndï=wana ande
Glosses: turtle 3SG.SUBJ 1SG 3DU 3PL=feel ok
Translation: The turtle, I, they two, heard them, OK.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï alum ndï=na-in-e way mï ma=ala inim na-ma-na ma-n
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ child 3PL=DETR-get-DEP turtle 3SG.OBJ 3SG.OBJ=from water DETR-go-IRR go-IPFV
Translation: [After] he [= the man] had children, the turtle was going to go away from him, [back] to the water.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=ala inim na-ma-na ma-n-e
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=from water DETR-go-IRR go-IPFV-DEP
Translation: [It] was going to go away from him to the water.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: imba p-e ala maka longom tï ma=na-na
Glosses: night be-DEP PL.DIST thus dream take 3SG.OBJ=give-PFV
Translation: At night, they gave him [= the man] a dream like this.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: na=n ma=ta nï u=andïm inim na-ma-na
Glosses: talk=OBL 3SG.OBJ=say 1SG 2SG=from water DETR-go-IRR
Translation: [It] told him: “I will go from you [back] to the water.”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: itom mï wo-p umbenam lamndu ma=asa-p
Glosses: father 3SG.SUBJ sleep-PFV morning pig 3SG.OBJ=hit-PFV
Translation: The man slept and in the morning killed a pig.
Language: Unknown language ( translation)
Transcription: Wonmelma
Glosses: [name]
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: lamndu ma-nji wi Wonmelma
Glosses: pig 3SG.OBJ-POSS name [name]
Translation: The pig’s name was Wonmelma.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=asa-p-e way ma=ul mï=na-na-ama-p
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=hit-PFV-DEP turtle 3SG.OBJ=with 3SG.SUBJ-DETR-DETR-eat-PFV
Translation: After [he] killed it, [he] ate it with the turtle.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: at kwa ma=n mï ma=tï ma=n ani lï-p
Glosses: end one 3SG.OBJ=OBL 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=take 3SG.OBJ=OBL bilum put-PFV
Translation: One piece [of the meat] – he put it in the bilum [= string bag] for it [= the turtle].
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: way mï ango ma=n ka li ma-na
Glosses: turtle 3SG.SUBJ NEG 3SG.OBJ=OBL let down go-IRR
Translation: The turtle would not [yet] leave him and go down.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: mï kop ma=ul ma=p-e
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ just 3SG.OBJ=with 3SG.OBJ=be-IPFV
Translation: It just stayed with him.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: mï ko ma=ul ma=p-e nogat
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ just 3SG.OBJ=with 3SG.OBJ=be-IPFV no
Translation: It just stayed with him – no!
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: itom ma-nji alum ndï ndï
Glosses: father 3SG.OBJ-POSS child 3PL 3PL
Translation: The father’s children, they –
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: min numan yena ul wandam ma-n-e
Glosses: 3DU husband woman with jungle go-IPFV-DEP
Translation: They – the husband was going around the jungle with [his] wife.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: nogat
Glosses: no
Translation: No.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: alum yeta mï ko ma=wap nali wongïta tï-n ko way ngusuwa ma=n lïmndï ma=u maka ma=asa
Glosses: child man 3SG.SUBJ just 3SG.OBJ=be.PST spine bow take-PFV just turtle poor 3SG.OBJ=OBL eye 3SG.OBJ=from thus 3SG.OBJ=hit
Translation: The son just stayed there and got a sago frond bow and just hit the poor turtle like this in the eye.
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: ma=asa-e mïka nali mï nungun ma lïmndï u-p-e
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=hit-DEP thus spine 3SG.SUBJ break 3SG.OBJ eye put-PFV-DEP
Translation: Having hit it, the spine thus broke into its eye.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: itom mï wa i ma=angla-lo-p
Glosses: father 3SG.SUBJ village go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=await-go-PFV
Translation: The man went to the village and searched for it.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: inom ngata ngusuwa anda ango luwa na-i
Glosses: mother grand poor SG.DIST which place DETR-go.PFV
Translation: “Where did that poor grandmother go?”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ndï atwana nungolke ndï=ta-e
Glosses: 3PL question child 3PL=say-DEP
Translation: They asked the children.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: alum ndï=ta-e alum ndï na-ta an ango kalam me
Glosses: child 3PL=say-DEP child 3PL DETR-say 1PL.EXCL NEG knowledge NEG
Translation: [They] asked the children and the children replied: “We don’t know.”
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: yenanu nungol ma=wap-e na=n ma=ta nogat ya
Glosses: woman child 3SG.OBJ=be.PST-DEP talk=OBL 3SG.OBJ=say no yes
Translation: But the daughter later told him [= the father]: “Not at all!”
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: yeta anda ma=asa wap-e
Glosses: man SG.DIST 3SG.OBJ=hit be.PST-DEP
Translation: “That boy hit it!”
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: nali wongïta anda=n ma-ngusuwa lïmndï anda=ka ma=asa wap
Glosses: spine bow SG.DIST=OBL 3SG.OBJ-poor eye SG.DIST=in 3SG.OBJ=hit be.PST
Translation: “[He] hit the poor thing in the eye with that sago frond bow.”
Language: Tok Pisin (English translation)
Transcription: way mï ta awal p-e imba p-e i ma=iya apa i lïmndï ma=n ma=ul si
Glosses: turtle 3SG.SUBJ already afternoon be-DEP night be-DEP go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=toward house go.PFV eye 3SG.OBJ=OBL 3SG.OBJ=with push
Translation: The turtle – already in the afternoon – went at night, went to him in the house, and showed him [its injured] eye.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: nï u=andïm na-ma-na ma-n
Glosses: 1SG 2SG=from DETR-go-IRR go-IPFV
Translation: “So I’m going to go to away from you.”
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: wolka lamndu kwa ma=asa-p-e ma=ul mï=na-na-ama-p at kuma ndï=n ma=n ame na-ita-p
Glosses: again pig one 3SG.OBJ=hit-PFV-DEP 3SG.OBJ=with 3SG.SUBJ=DETR-DETR-eat-PFV end some 3PL=OBL 3SG.OBJ=OBL basket DETR-tie-PFV
Translation: Having killed another pig, [he] ate it with it [= the turtle] and tied some pieces [of meat] up in his basket.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ndï=tï ma=na-n-e mï ndï=tï na-i inim na-i
Glosses: 3PL=take 3SG.OBJ=give-PFV-DEP 3SG.SUBJ 3PL=take DETR-go.PFV water DETR-go.PFV
Translation: [He] gave them [= the pieces of meat] to it [= the turtle], and it took them and went, went into the water.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: inim na-i-e unan amun lïmndï way ambi anda=andï-en
Glosses: water DETR-go.PFV-DEP 1PL.INCL now eye turtle big SG.DIST=see-NMLZ
Translation: Having gone into the water, we now see that big turtle.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ndï angumoni nïmal anda=u inim p[-e]
Glosses: 3PL swelling river SG.DIST=from water be[-IPFV]
Translation: They are in the swelling river, in the water.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ndï angumoni nïmal ma=u inim p-e
Glosses: 3PL swelling river 3SG.OBJ=from water be-IPFV
Translation: They are in the water in the swelling river.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: unan way ambi way ambi ndï
Glosses: 1PL.INCL turtle big turtle big 3PL
Translation: We – big turtles, the big turtles –
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ndï-nam ndï angumoni nïmal ma=p
Glosses: 3PL-EMPH 3PL swelling river 3SG.OBJ=be
Translation: They’re the ones; they live in the swelling river.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: Amblom Yena mï
Glosses: [name] woman 3SG.SUBJ
Translation: Amblom Yena –
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ndï nungolke ndï=n ma=n lï-p
Glosses: 3PL child 3PL=OBL 3SG.OBJ=OBL put-PFV
Translation: They [= other villagers] left [their] children with her.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: wandam unda-e ulum ali-e mï wa ma=p-e
Glosses: jungle go-DEP palm scrape-DEP 3SG.SUBJ village 3SG.OBJ=be-IPFV
Translation: When [they] would go around in the jungle and scrape sago palms, she stayed in the village.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ndï-nji unduwan ndï=we we ndï=ama-e uma ndï=tï li unda-e ndï=kuk maka ulum nowe anda ndï=n
Glosses: 3PL-POSS head 3PL=cut then 3PL=eat-DEP bone 3PL=take down go-DEP 3PL=gather thus palm sago.species SG.DIST 3PL=OBL
Translation: [She] would cut off their heads and then eat them, bring [their] bones down, and pile them – like, that sago palm – with them –
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ndï=kuk ma=u ma awi u-p
Glosses: 3PL=gather 3SG.OBJ=from 3SG.OBJ shoulder put-PFV
Translation: [She] piled them there onto its shoulder.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: i ma na=n ambla=kï-p
Glosses: go.PFV 3SG.OBJ talk=OBL PL.REFL=say-PFV
Translation: They went and talked about her.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: ma=atï-na na-kï-p i-e
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=hit-IRR DETR-say-PFV go.PFV-DEP
Translation: [They] wanted to kill her.
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Transcription: mï li i awlu ulum ma=u ma we ulum mï keka i wutota=p
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ down go.PFV step palm 3SG.OBJ=from go then palm 3SG.SUBJ completely go.PFV tall=COP
Translation: But she went down [from her house] and stepped onto the palm, and then the palm went and got really tall.
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Transcription: wutota=p-e ndï wongïta tï-n ma=ul asa-p ulwa=p-e
Glosses: tall=COP-DEP 3PL bow take-PFV 3SG.OBJ=with hit-PFV nothing=COP-DEP
Translation: Since [it] was tall, they could hit nothing when they got a bow and shot with it.
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Transcription: kwa nga-awa wandam nga=u i ndï=iya wa i
Glosses: one SG.PROX-INT jungle SG.PROX=from go.PFV 3PL=toward village go.PFV
Translation: But someone just came from out of the jungle and went to them in the village.
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Transcription: wongïta ma=tï-n ma=n ma=ul asa
Glosses: bow 3SG.OBJ=take-PFV 3SG.OBJ=OBL 3SG.OBJ=with hit
Translation: [He] took the bow and shot at her with it.
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Transcription: ma-nji sawi ma=ni-p ma=ul asa-e
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ-POSS magic 3SG.OBJ=act-PFV 3SG.OBJ=with hit-DEP
Translation: [He] sang his magic charm and shot with it.
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Transcription: kwa mï ma=n ambï aweta kï-p
Glosses: one 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=OBL SG.REFL friend say-PFV
Translation: Someone said that it was his friend.
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Transcription: a nï-nji aweta anda ko ma=atï-na
Glosses: ah 1SG-POSS friend SG.DIST just 3SG.OBJ=hit-IRR
Translation: “Ah, that friend of mine will really hit her!”
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Transcription: mï asi-ka sawi ma=ni-p ulwa=p-e
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ sit-let magic 3SG.OBJ=act-PFV nothing=COP-DEP
Translation: He [= the stranger] sat and sang the magic spell to the end –
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Transcription: keka ma=n u wongïta ma=tï-n keka ma=asa-e mï keka ni-p
Glosses: completely 3SG.OBJ=OBL from bow 3SG.OBJ=take-PFV completely 3SG.OBJ=hit-DEP 3SG.SUBJ completely die-PFV
Translation: Totally – [he] got the bow from him [= his friend] and totally hit her and she died completely.
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Transcription: ulum ma=lo-p li lï-p ma=in u uma ndï=kuk an-mbï-u-p
Glosses: palm 3SG.OBJ=cut-PFV down put-PFV 3SG.OBJ=in from bone 3PL=gather out-here-put-PFV
Translation: [They] cut the sago palm down and gathered the bones out from within it.
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Transcription: ma=nïkï-p at ko=tï ma=na-nda na-ta-e
Glosses: 3SG.OBJ=dig-PFV end INDF=take 3SG.OBJ=give-IRR DETR-say-DEP
Translation: [They] butchered her and talked about giving a piece [of her body] to him [= the stranger].
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Transcription: mï kambï ma=n ndï=ta m
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ shun 3SG.OBJ=OBL 3PL=say INTERJ
Translation: But he didn’t want it and told them: “No!”
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Transcription: un maka ma nambï p-en nga=tï nï=na-ta nï ma=tï ma-na
Glosses: 2PL thus 3SG.OBJ body be-NMLZ SG.PROX=take 1SG=give-COND 1SG 3SG.OBJ=take go-IRR
Translation: “If you, like this, give me this thing on her body, I will take it and go.”
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Transcription: mï ma=tï i ma=si isi pul ma=tï lï-p
Glosses: 3SG.SUBJ 3SG.OBJ=take go.PFV 3SG.OBJ=push young.pangal piece 3SG.OBJ=take put-PFV
Translation: He brought it and pushed it onto a piece of palm frond.
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Transcription: kukumbe isi pul ma=tï lï-p-e mï tembi=p
Glosses: sago.species pangal piece 3SG.OBJ=take put-PFV-DEP 3SG.SUBJ bad=COP
Translation: [He] put it on a piece of kukumbe sago frond, but it was bad.