Datapoint Mauritian Creole/Aspect change in verb chains

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Aspect change in verb chains is possible

Example 55-88:
mo ti'n sorti pe praṅ sime kupe daṅ nwar pu al labutik, en nam paret divaṅ mwa
mo
I
ti'n
pst=pfv
sorti
go.out
pe
prog
praṅ
take
sime
path
kupe
cut
daṅ
in
nwar
dark
pu
for
al
go
labutik,
shop
en
a
nam
ghost
paret
appear
divaṅ
before
mwa
me
I'd gone out [of the house and I] was taking the short cut to the shop in the dark [when] a ghost appeared in front of me (lit. I had gone out, am taking the short cut to the shop in the darkness, a ghost appears in front of me).
Confidence:
Intermediate