Dijan iya im mukarra tri. Thad lif pat bla mukarra, im gudwan bla so.
Dijan
prox:adj
iya
here
im
3sg
mukarra
river.pandanus
tri.
tree
Thad
dem
lif
leaf
pat
part
bla
dat/poss
mukarra,
river.pandanus
im
3sg
gud-wan
good-adj
bla
dat/poss
so.
sore
This here is a river pandanus. The leaf of the river pandanus is good for sores.
Comment:
Variety: Roper River. The example illustrates a possessive construction with inanimate possessor (with part-whole interpretation), and both adjectival and nominal predicates in a verbless clause.