Continuing from previously, the next two sentences in Soronen Kidi.
Kidido keŋive, “Zodu diya lidu libanaraza seŋipe?”
- kidido
- kidi=du
- rock=GOAL
- keŋive
- keŋi=vi
- question=OUT
- zodu
- zo=du
- indef=GOAL
- diya
- di=ya
- 2SG=CAUS
- lidu
- li=du
- 1SG=GOAL
- libanaraza
- li=bana=ra=za
- 1SG=foot=GO=PATH
- seŋipe
- seŋi=pe
- warning=FAIL
In this sentence we have a question with a question word, zodu, a combination of the inanimate singular relative clause pronoun zo= wearing its other hat as a general indefinite pronoun and the goal marker =du. Indefinite zo= is the basis of a number of question words. The noun seŋi ‘warning’ is considered speech, and so we have a speech-emitter ‘you’, an audience ‘me’, and then =za to mark indirect speech, which can be anything from an indirect quotation to the bare subject or topic of the speech. Finally, rather than the usual =vi OUT for speech, we have =pe FAIL, as the speech presumably failed to be emitted.
Kideya rusuve, “Ŋeya piŋividu soronen kidi liŋi.”
- kideya
- kidi=ya
- rock=CAUS
- rusuve
- rusu=vi
- reply=OUT
- ŋeya
- ŋe=ya
- SGan=CAUS
- piŋividu
- piŋi=vi=du
- pain=OUT=GOAL
- soronen
- soro=nen
- word=COM
- kidi
- kidi
- rock
- liŋi
- li=ŋi
- 1SG=MOVE
For the reply, more direct speech. The first phrase is an embedded clause marked by =du. Here =du marks an intent, a metaphorical goal. The noun piŋi ‘pain’ is abstract enough to be emitted. Otherwise sensations, physical and mental, tend to use =me IN or =no COME as their main verb. Using =me or =no here would imply that the rock was feeling pain rather than causing pain.
Note also that the animate singular relative clause pronoun is used here in what is not an actual relative clause. These pronouns are also used for indefinite reference and questions. I go back and forth on whether this should be the first person pronoun instead.