Sentence #26

Mede kugi kennitodama, data deye seppetodanu.

mede
tree
kugi
touch
kenni
hit
-to
-DP+REP
=da
=this.3A
=ma
=N2
data
fall
deye
LET
seppe
FAIL
-to
-DP+REP
=da
=this.3A
=nu
=N4

He shook the tree; he failed to make them fall.

This sentence is part of Peyada, Cisena Taboni Yisena (Coyote and Cottontail’s Children).

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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.

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