Sentence #27

Dini noyetosana cisena Taboni yisenasana, dini noyetosanamo.

dini
laugh
noye
emerge
-to
-DP+REP
=sana
=that+PL.3A
cisena
children
Taboni
Cottontail
yisena
child+PL
=sana
=that+PL.3A
dini
laugh
noye
emerge
-to
-DP+REP
=sana
=that+PL.3A
=mo
=this.3O

Cottontail's children laughed, they laughed at him.

Ambitransitive noye also incorporates manner nouns, here dini 'laugh'.

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

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.

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