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== Rule #7 – Verb-phrase sequences == VP li VP. If you say the word “li” after the start of a verb phrase, it ends it. You can then say another verb phrase after it. The result says that # both those verb phrases happen, and # they are both done by the same thing. {| class="wikitable" |- | | dàu li dòk. | | “It walks and talks.” | | |- | | lùki-wás li mòkkál | | “They look at birds and eat fish.” | style="border-top:none;" | |- | | jàn li dòk zùl. | | “There’s a person and they’re talking loudly.” | style="border-top:none;" | |- | | dòk zùl. | | “Someone’s talking loudly.” | style="border-top:none;" | |- | | dòk li zùl. | | “Someone’s talking and they’re big.” | style="border-top:none;" | |} You can have more than one “li VP” combination in a sentence. {| class="wikitable" |- | | mùt. | | “They are many.”, “There’s a lot of them.” | | < tok ''mute'', ult. < la ''multus'' |- | | bìpi li lìli li mùt. | | “There are bugs and they’re small and there’s a lot of them.” | style="border-top:none;" | |} You can say it as one sentence or as two. If a sentence starts with “li”, it’s done by whatever did the last one. {| class="wikitable" |- | | bàl. | | “It works (on it).”, “It makes it.” | | < tok ''pali'', ult. < la ''facere'' |- | | gàl! li zùl. | | “There’s a fish! It’s a big one.” | style="border-top:none;" | |- | | jàn li bàl zùl. li bàl bòn. | | “There’s a person and they’re working hard. They’re doing a good job.” | style="border-top:none;" | |- | | gàm. li lùki. li jò. | | “Something comes to something. It sees it. It has it.” | style="border-top:none;" | In this case, it’s definite that the looking and having are done by the one that arrived. |} === Question === How could I say?: {| class="wikitable" |- | | “There’s a tree and it’s big.” | | | | |- | | “There’s a person. They’re going to the tree.” | | | style="border-top:none;" | |}
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