Test Sentences, 108

Continuing with Gary’s list:

  1. Jack seized a handful of pebbles and threw them into the lake.

Here we can get by with a serial predicate.

142. Jack amba kɨdɨdi onnɨt ma kunava iɬanya eyonnɨt ɛbɛ dɨmmeya dɛstɛ.

Jack
Jack
amba
some.MTpl
kɨdɨdi
rock.MTpl
onnɨt
aŋi.PRF
ma
3P
kunava
hand.SSsg
iɬanya
filled-ly
eyonnɨt
into
ɛbɛ
aŋi.PRF
dɨmmeya
lake.SSsg
dɛstɛ
forcefully

Jack filled his hand with pebbles and forcefully sent them into the lake.

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