Chapter 1 - A curious trade
- "" (' ma min ') : Mother (Parent Female)
Jack and his lived in a small house with their cow, and very little money.
- "" (' man esin ') : Market (Place of trade)
- "" (' esin ') : sell/trade
One day, his said to him, take this cow to and her for money.
- " " (' zan Zagg ') : Jack ( Person Jack )
- "" (' zan ') : Person
began on his way to , but on the way, he met a strange .
- " beba " (' zi beba ') : beans ( Child of vegetable)
This had with him some beba . He said to that he would his beba , for the cow.
"Why?" asked , "a cow is worth much more than beba "
- " lugin " (' lugin ') : Look / See
" lugin at these beans", replied the , "these beba are magic. Just plant them in your garden and lugin what happens".
really wanted to lugin , so he the cow to the in exchange for beba
took the beba excitedly back to his
- " " (' wei ') : Do/Did (Comes before verbs)
His was not so excited. she take the beba from throw them on the rubbish pile.
She then sent bed without any supper, and later went bed herself.
- " giasi " (' giasi ') : tree
During the night, beba began to grow into a tall giasi By the morning they touched the sky.
- "" (' bi ') : of (separates groups of words)
and his lugin at the giasi beba coming out of the rubbish pile.
say. "I wonder what's at the top of that giasi beba .
- " " (' ei ') : Direct Object Marker. (Marks what the verb happens to)
She commanded Jack to climb giasi beba lugin what's at the top"
started . It was a hard climb. When he reached top, he was exhausted.
- "" (' gein ') : able / can
He lugin around him, and to his surprise he " lugin " (' wei gein lugin ei ') giant castle.
"How did that get here?" he asked himself."
- " vuli " (' vuli ') : Big
He walked it and lugin that it was much more vuli than he had realized.
"How I get in?" he asked himself, but then he lugin small gap under the door, vuli enough for someone small like him to climb through.
Once he was inside, he looked and, on the table vuli he saw a hen. He lugin from around the corner as a vuli vuli speak hen saying "Lay".
- "" (' don ') : Time / Moment / Hour
At that the Hen laid egg that was pure gold.
vuli vuli took egg, cooked ate.
- " giawin " (' giawin ') : go / move
thought himself, "I need to get me that hen". He waited until vuli vuli giawin then snuck onto the table vuli grabbed hen, giawin back giasi beba
As he neared the top, he heard the vuli vuli crying out, giawin giawin after him.
- " is " (' is-mon ') : him / his (as adjective after a noun)
giawin giawin grabbed top of the giasi beba slid straight down is
- "" (' mugo ') : food / eat
was very excited about this. The two of them golden eggs for months.
Chapter 2 - Another visit.
- "" (' vis ') : New / Again / Re-
Much later, at spoke to is He wanted giawin back up castle explore some more.
- " is " (' is-min ') : She / Her
thought, this was a great idea, is made da is-mon ei golden egg sandwiches.
began to climb the giasi beba . is entered castle, quietly.
- "" (' bi wei ') : That does / of doing
On the table vuli lugin Harp play music by itself.
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" i " (' i ') : Marks the subject when not the first word
is lugin vuli vuli say to the harp "Play", and "Stop" and realized i is wanted it.
is waited i vuli vuli giawin before climing onto the table taking the harp, giawin giawin away.
But the harp called out, and vuli vuli chased after lugin i giawin down the giasi beba .
vuli vuli giawin down behind . But reached the bottom first.
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"" (' din ') : Cut
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"" (' elo ') : Tool / Use
is called da ma min is-mon, Oh fetch the Axe. is giawin returned with the " giasi " (' elo din giasi '), and zan Zagg wei began din.
giasi beba fell with a mighty crash, and vuli vuli with it.
That was the end of vuli vuli .
As for and is . They lived a quite life, golden egg sandwiches, to the beautiful sound of a harp, thinking nothing of vuli vuli