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Sentence 20

il aþ ñamma jahāttam jaλāta tō tūāþ tema anhāri sūjamē tō tema jāo to anþūni il ewaþ tema jañīña;
il aþ ñamma jahāttam jaλāta tō tūāþ tema anhāri sūjamē
il CONJ ("and then") REL (NI +3p.sg.agent) Object of NI: N.sg ("camel-like animal") Object of NI: N.sg ("killed") tō CONJ ("in order that") REL (SE.past +3p.sg.goal) Object of SE: N.coll ("water") LOC ("at" +"it" +"in")
tema jāo to anþūni
tō CONJ ("because") REL (SE.past +3p.sg.goal) PN ("this/here") SRC marker N.coll ("books")
il ewaþ tema jañīña
ē CONJ ("and yet") REL (SE.past +3p.sg.goal) N.sg ("very little")
He killed the camel then for the water inside it, so he had read in books, and got very little.

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