Hapi
kaóxìì-íh kì-patía-ha=à ahíkixii sòi-a=kóa kì-kaxá-a-xapa
jaguar-ERG 3sPOSS-catch-NMZ=LINK deer:DIM want-2/3=DECL 3sPOSS-eat-NMZ-PURP
‘The jaguar wants to catch the little deer in order to eat it.’
Notes
- sòi 'to want' takes an NP as an O argument, so the verb needs to be nominalized using the general nominallizer -(h)a.
- purpose clauses are also formed using that nominalizer, which then precedes the purposive marker -xapa.
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