Datapoint Louisiana Creole (old texts)/Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb

Values

Particle, a few lexical items may intervene

Example 53-180:
Compair Lapin avé compair Bouki te tou lé dé oùlé mayé.
Compair
Brother
Lapin
Rabbit
avé
with
compair
brother
Bouki
Bouki
te
pst
tou
all
lé
def.art
dé
two
oùlé
want
mayé.
marry
Brother Rabbit and Brother Bouki both wanted to get married.
French: Compère Lapin et Compère Bouki voulaient tous deux se marier.

Source: Neumann 1985: 344

Example 53-181:
Mé roi là té pa olé.
Mé
but
roi-là
king-art.def.sg
té
pst
pa
neg
olé.
want
But the king didn't want to.

Source: Neumann-Holzschuh (eds.) 1987: 21

Confidence:
Very certain