Value Serial verb construction plus preposition

Language:
Tok Pisin
Parameter:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’
References
Mihalic 1971

Examples

  1. Em pulim dispela ol samting kam autsait.
    Em
    3sg
    pulim
    pull
    dispela
    this
    ol
    pl
    samting
    thing
    kam
    come
    autsait.
    outside
    He pulled these things out.

    See nd: WSP F17

  2. Em pulim brata bilong em kam antap.
    Em
    3sg
    pulim
    pull
    brata
    brother
    bilong
    poss
    em
    3sg
    kam
    come
    antap.
    above
    He pulled his brother out (of the hole).

    See nd: WSP F17