97 5.13.3.6 sei X TO YOU
There is a single canonical example of sei with a YOU addressee:
KK:117 An Kekoa say, “Oh ya? I can say dat to you again.”
5.13.3.7 sei X TO SOMEONE The following are near-canonical examples of sei with a SOMEONE addressee, assuming that maen and
proper names are decomposable in terms of SOMEONE:
KA:127 Kapua wen go say to da booga man–an den Kapua said, “I gonna take a’ your clothes,” ae? KE:139 Uh, nobody not going to say it to Kali, an nobody not going say to a liddle gir’.
KK:123 She said to Kehi, “He, couldin be, could.” KK:123 Ummm. She said to Kehi, “Kehi, you
my muther.”
KL:125 He said to Pono, “Pono, wo you put on da racka again?”
5.13.3.8 sei X ABOUT SOMEONE There is a single near-canonical example of sei combining with a topic complement:
JB:69 Yeah, the Filipinos, they goes with the Chinese and with the Hawaiian people too. They mingle together. And they don’t have any trouble with it. Because, some of the Filipinos were working
with the Chinese people, Mr. Ah Wo, Mr. Thomas and Mr. Ginji Araki. And.... did I say about Chun?
I assume here that CHUN may be explicated as: 110 Chun: the person I think of when I say ‘chun’
5.13.4 Examples of tel
5.13.4.1 tel Direct Quote There are many canonical examples of tel with direct quote complements:
BO:340 a tel, ei, toni, hauz abaut, a, spansa da kidz, boi. ‘I said, “Hey, Tony, how about, uh, sponsoring the kids, huh?”’
BO:340 a tel, aes ful av bul-oni, den. waet yu min? ‘I said, “that’s full of baloney, then. What do you mean?”’
AK:610 Yeah, to the store, yeah. Because the store owner, Awong. Alfred Awong, sometimes he
come down, he see. He tell, “You bring this up to my store.” So I bring up to the store.
ER:886 He wen tell my name. I come back in the station, “Eh, cowboy, what happened? How come
you bang?” I tell, “I no go bang. The driver wen.” They no believe, eh. They figure the driver no bang, gotta be the new man.
GF:309 Yeah, she said okay. And I tell okay, too. We went in front of the judge and the Judge
married us. Judge Forbes of Waimea married us. I never had five cents with me when I got married. Never had nothing.
MM:326 One thing my dad do, and I still remember that. Maybe I was about seven or eight years
old, I think. When the first plane came over here, they used to tell, “Tom Gunn, Tom Gunn.” And McBryde was good enough to take out the train, you know, and bring those from Wahiawa, Lawa‘i,
Kukui‘ula, all those people over there who was interested in coming to come see the plane. And the plane landed up here.
MY:1479 This guy was telling bad about me. “This ‘Mahjong’ is no good beach boy. He’s no good boy.” Yasumatsu man tell, “You wrong. Kono hito ga ichiban Waikiki. or ” he said. “This boy is Waikiki
de ichiban ii koto shite iru. number one, Waikiki.” He said, “Why?” “He do only good thing for Waikiki
98 people.” He tell, “How come?” That’s the truth, that’s why. I did so much for the Waikiki people. I do a
lot of thing for them. That’s why, he tell, “See, this man is good boy. You no talk bad about him.” The guy, he look sick. That’s why, even today, all the Japanese old ladies, they like me. They know me
because always I go to their funerals and everything, I go.
SU:1542 So he tell me, “Ey, Sam, I think you might as well put ‘Smile Cafe,’ though.” I says,
“Okay.” That’s how we started, see. Put “Smile Cafe.” And then, when I put Smile Cafe, everybody tell, “Ey, you got to smile every time.”
YA:1063 Make fried chicken. Cook everything. Then, I tell ’em, “You come my place, eat.” They come. The wife and him say, “Oh, we don’t want to eat the rabbit.” They no eat rabbit. Bumbai, when
my wife cook all the rabbit, just like tempura stuff. Put in he oil and fry ’em crispy. The rabbit and the chicken, two bowls. Separate, see? So, when they come eat, we tell ’em, “This is rabbit, this is chicken.”
Everybody pick up one for try. They come back. Everybody eat rabbit, no like the chicken.
5.13.4.2 tel Indirect Quote There are also numerous canonical examples of tel occuring with indirect quotes:
AK:613 Baseball or volleyball, softball, whatever game. They all enjoy that. When we had that,
they used to tell me, the older ones used to tell me, before they have sports, they used to go play cards. They challenge, you know each section, he playing cards. And after that, they make party. Or, they go
swim. Jump – you know they get high place, they jump in the water and challenge each other.
AK:655 No. He told me that’s the way to plant that. AK:668 By the time we got up to the hospital, almost 4 o’clock. I think I get out, the pall, about 9
o’clock. Start all the way and reach hospital 4 o’clock. And she was suffering. So the doctor came look. He tell me, “Eh, bad case emergency. She had rupture.” The appendix had bust already. So the doctor
told me that’s only about 50-50 chance, whether she going pull through or not. My wife and I stayed two months in the hospital.
ER:751 Yeah, they put ’em on top. And they bring ’em down slaughterhouse. Every time I used to go follow them, eh. Sometime pau school, then they go up, I go, too, I ride. But sometime come dark, I
scared because bumbai I get lost, eh. But every time he tell me if I no can find them, go by the track. Stay by the track, so they can find me on the track, eh.
ER:766 Aku, kawakawa. That’s da kine Lahaina guys more. But that time ‘opelu and akule cheap. You can buy fifteen cents, maybe forty, forty they tell that’s one ka‘au, eh. I don’t know what one ka‘au
means. But they count forty, and they sell you. They tell fifteen cents or quarter. Sometime when you go over there, you like buy fish too, eh. Then when the fish come inside, you just go with them. You tell
you like buy fish. How much? A quarter or half dollar.
ER:773 Yeah, Munro. He wen go see Munro in the morning because every morning they go by the
office, go get their job for outside. So he ask. So the boss tell, yeah, he need some young boy. So he come home and he tell me, “Ey, get up. Go drink coffee. Go make sandwich.” He tell my aunty, “Make
sandwich for him. He going work.”
ER:799 Yeah, everybody. They take turn. Maybe if you no like go, eh, you tell you no like go. I go
take your place, I go work Sunday.
MM:355 Yeah, yeah. Because all the money going to you. You know, today people, they tell they
work hard. They make you laugh.
TA:44 Yeah. And then he didn’t have enough men work for him so that land was idle. He told me
if I take the land, he’ll plow for me and everything. So I told him, “Okay.” So he put his men over there, he plow for me. Then I just fill ’em tip with water. Everytime I come down I clean the land. Only two
days I can work. Sunday I have to go back and go work Monday. I usually come down about Friday evening, Friday afternoon or Saturday morning.
99 5.13.4.3 tel SOMETHING
There are four canonical examples of tel combining directly with a lexical SOMETHING assuming that wat, ting, and nating are allolexes of SOMETHING:
ER:622 Well, well, you see. I go out with her. Then she had big stomach, but she Keomuku. But the
father no like tell me nothing. So he tell the uncle, the uncle tell me, “Eh, boy, I think you gotta marry this girl.” He tell, “You make ’em big stomach, eh?” So I no say nothing. So I come home. I ask my
brother them, because I going get married. But they know, eh, which girl going get married, they tell, “Up to you. You going get married.”
ER:882 No, no. They never tell nothing, no, no. They no bother us. But they know the ranch,
yeah, just about being supposed pau too, eh. The ranch was kind of pau already, going down, eh. And that time we stay up here, that time was strike time, only we stay go help for find the leftover kind cow.
We try go catch. Then the Hawaiian Pine guys, da kine guys no work, they strike, they go help. They go ride. Us, we give ’em horse, they go help us. They like go drive cattle, eh, go find.
FD:289 Yeah. That’s the one on the patch’s bank now. he was the first to go in. But I told him, “I seen that already, but I didn’t want to tell your uncle. I told him when the leaves is yellow, is showing
that some kind of disease is attacking the taro.” But he doesn’t believe. He just go pull the grass, and then just no think nothing. I say, “Well, I have to pray harder.” For put something in his head to think,
“Oh, I think my wife is telling me something different so I better try.” He doesn’t want anybody to tell him what to do.
NC:155 And yet the folks said, for instance, that party you go sacrifice grave, eh. He said that they ate their thing already. What happened? The food is same thing. The taste and everything is still there. I
don’t see any change. I don’t know if they really are there or not. You believe they are there? I don’t think so. I don’t know though. But I tell you one thing. My mother, one time. You know, one old man
died. Mock Chew’s place. Old man Batalona died, eh. Passed away. Andoi, he was the one I saw took ’em up and buried. So he buried right next to my father. You see, my father’s grave go like this, eh. All the
graves go like this. I don’t know why he bury like this. Slant like that. He bust the corner of my....My father get double box, eh, the coffin. Then one outside coffin. He bust the outside coffin. And then my
mother say, “Gee.” She call me by my Chinese name, Ah Hoy. Then she said, “Last night I dreamed father came back. He says somebody wen rob him. Broke his house. You try go up the grave, if there’s
anything wrong over there.”
There is a single near-canonical example of tel combining with SOMETHING: NC:200 Oh, just one fellow tell so-and-so’s girl, he think. He said, “I’ll ask for you.” So one day, go
down, he ask and then make Then they tell me certain thing. I went down. My uncle was down Honolulu. I was down there staying with my uncle. One day, I just get the taxi, take a look how she look
like. Then come back.
5.13.4.4 tel THIS There are several canonical examples of tell and THIS:
AK:593 Well, the first time I saw Waipio, I think nice place to live, you know. Good place. And then you have to do work in order to know what is the life in Waipio. You just only stay, you don’t
know, eh? You got to learn how to get by. As for myself I know I get by because I always associate with people. I mingle around with anybody, you know. Ask them questions and tell me this and that. That’s
how I learn lot, you know. Especially like Sundays, like that, we get along some old people, you know. They come by and we talk Hawaiian and I like talk Hawaiian to them, see. I approach them in Hawaiian.
We all sit down and talk Hawaiian.
FD:283 They play around the taro patch. Go in the stream. And I had my oldest boy, he worked with that, with my husband. They pull taro, the three of them, Adloph, and then the one in Honolulu,
and then one up the Mainland. I had the three boys. And my oldest daughter, my grand daughter’s mom,
100 she’s a hard working girl. Those kids, you never hear them asking money, they want to go movie, or they
want to go carnival. They are like his own son. I was lucky, I had good children. You can tell Fannie this. Didn’t bother nobody until they grow up. Even I had Catherine, that was the baby of the first
family. Well, she loved this father more than her own.
FD:287 I guess maybe the water, or whatever. They take the water, nothing shows the water. The dirt, nothing. I say that’s the only one thing I do believe. That’s why I tell, “You folks don’t remember
that? That’s a saying in the Bible said, ’There’s a day will come, day of starvation.”’ And they all look at me. I think Roy, he’s a minister of this church. I don’t think he will tell you folks this.
GF:321 Then they ask me, “Gee, to rebuild this place again, take you quite a bit of money. How much would you think it cost you?” “Oh, couple thousand dollars.” “So you think you going to continue
raise taro?” “Oh, yeah, I’m going to continue.” “Why?” “Because taro going be better each time.” “You sure it’s going to be better?” I said, “Yeah, she’s going to be better.” “What makes you think so?” “Well,
less people raising taro. The young people, they go to school, they go to high school, they go to college, they never come back again. The old people dying out. Maybe I’m telling you this now but pretty soon
I’m dying too. I don’t know if any young people going to continue.”
5.13.4.5 tel X TO ME There are numerous examples of tel occuring with ME:
AK:593 Well, the first time I saw Waipio, I think nice place to live, you know. Good place. And then you have to do work in order to know what is the life in Waipio. You just only stay, you don’t
know, eh? You got to learn how to get by. As for myself I know I get by because I always associate with people. I mingle around with anybody, you know. Ask them questions and tell me this and that. That’s
how I learn lot, you know. Especially like Sundays, like that, we get along some old people, you know. They come by and we talk Hawaiian and I like talk Hawaiian to them, see. I approach them in Hawaiian.
We all sit down and talk Hawaiian.
AK:612 Well, an old man gave me. See, this man, he belonged to Laupahoehoe; he was living Laupahoehoe, Waipio and Kona. He used to live in Kona. So when I came Waipio, he said that when I
was a little boy, he used to keep me. But I don’t remember. Then, one time, I get a chance, I went back and I asked my father if that was true. He said, “Yeah, that was true.” I asked who was the name of the
man. He said, “Yeah, when you was a little boy, he take care of you.” And then another lady, the same thing as that. She tell me when I was a little boy she was taking care of me. I not going believe that, but
I ask my father, and he say it’s true.
AK:613 Baseball or volleyball, softball, whatever game. They all enjoy that. When we had that,
they used to tell me, the older ones used to tell me, before they have sports, they used to go play cards. They challenge, you know each section, he playing cards. And after that, they make party. Or, they go
swim. Jump – you know they get high place, they jump in the water and challenge each other.
AK:614 Before time, that’s the most things they told me about. That playing cards, swimming,
high dive. Not they never have any others, but that the most sports they have. And the only other way they said, like you have a taro patch to clean, then you have to prepare, make a food. You have to make,
whatever you think you can prepare. Then, they call those to go over there and clean all the patches. They clean the whole thing one day. After that, they eat.
BB:003 Yea, right behind – stone kin’ eh. Every time, you know, I used to saw the wood and I used
to chop the wood. Every time she call me, she tell me, you can help me saw the wood and the kin’ chop ’em? No need make ’em small; cut ’em long so they can just throw ’em inside. I used to cut ’em and chop
’em. I was pretty good with the ax, you know.
EB:1137 Then, he told me, “We better go home.” No, he write to me. He said, “Better you and I go
home.” “No, you go. I follow you bumbai. When I’m ready to go home, I go home.” ER:757 The cowboys most they talk Hawaiian. Then I learn from them. I learn from them what
they talk. Most the Hawaiian word, they talk Hawaiian. All the cowboy. They no talk English too much.
101 Sometime I no understand, you know, the Hawaiian. You no understand but you listen, bumbai
sometimes you ask. You ask them, they tell you what. Then, when I marry my wife, I asked her any kind Hawaiian word, she know plenty, then she tell me most about the Hawaiian word. So now, yeah, I can
understand Hawaiian, but I no can talk too much. If the people talk, I know what they talking about. but for me answer them, sometime too hard for me. The easy kind, I can, you know the regular common
kind, but the hard one sometime I don’t know.
ER:773 Yeah, Munro. He wen go see Munro in the morning because every morning they go by the office, go get their job for outside. So he ask. So the boss tell, yeah, he need some young boy. So he come
home and he tell me, “Ey, get up. Go drink coffee. Go make sandwich.” He tell my aunty, “Make sandwich for him. He going work.” So I came down there. The boss tell me, “Oh, okay, you go with
one,” get one Hawaiian man, eh, and two young boys, just like my age, about my age...
ER:861 Yeah, pour ’em inside. Easy that one. So I tell my brother, “Me, I get stone but stay home,
but over here no more.” Bumbai he tell me he know somebody get, he go borrow, he get.
FD:282 Well, have lots of that. I don’t know. And they have to Pick me, the stupid one, cannot drive. That’s true. You know, if I know how to drive, I could have worked a outside kine job. I don’t
want to be home, housemaid like this. Even till now, they even tell me, they like me for I go clean up like that. I said, “No, I have worked enough already. I retired now, I stay home.” I still go tell yet, I tell
them. It’s just waste of time for me to go out and work, no sense.
GF:305 They want me to go to college but shee, boy, I rather go work. Lot of fun, you know. So my
brother told me, “Well, try two years, then. ” And he say, “Well, you still too young. You got to be 18 before you can enter college. You still too young. You go stay back two years work.” After you stay back
two years work, you don’t want to continue school already.
GF:318 So we got first crop. I pay Andrade off. Then Andrade tell me, “Say, you get some more
job? Any time you like work, call me. I come help you. I make for you.” But Andrade, he doesn’t charge you only for the working time, he charging for maintenance time too. He double the charge on
everything. That’s why lot of people bought their own tractors. That’s why, even me, I bought one small tractor.
JL:14 Yeh, yeh. Dey call him Aht – Aht Smith. Yeh, he make somersalt. But Mr. Carter tell me, he
tell Hawaiian – he smaht talk hawaiian, you know Mr. Carter: “Oh, Haole pupule. Bymby fall down makeh.” He make upside down, eh? Mr. Carter say, “Haole pupule.” I went...
JL:18 Bymby we came home, my daughtah Irene she already cook. We told Penhallow, “How
about having lunch with us?” And he said , “No, He gotta go home.” And he tell me, “You know why I came up here for?” “No, I dunno.” “I want you come back. After I pau pension, I want you come back.” I
tole him, “Let me tink it owa first. All right, I let you know one week time.” He said, “Too long, About three days.” So, all right tree days. So I went inside. My daughter tole me – Irene – “Boy, Penhallow
came up.” “oh, we went look the pipi. He know I know all this cattle, eh?” I tole Irene, “He want me come back on da ranch.” “After you pension already?” “Leggo da pension. I go back. Help him.” So in
tree days I let him know. I tole him,“I come back.” I work with him till today.
MM:329 His gun, “Pom Pom” He had double-barrel, see. “Pom Pom” Oh, the mynah bird, poor
thing. And then, I think he get, oh, maybe about ten, I think. He tell me, “Okay. You like eat, come. We go my house. I go clean, I go cook.” So I went. The damn thing was tough, you know. Tough, but no, the
way he fixed up–he put wild tomato. You know da kine wild tomato, and cook ’em. Oh, been taste all right, though. I still kind of remember. It taste all right.
MT:1184 Department heads. We had no money, zero. They never did no research, no nothing on it. Now, Bill Furtick just gave us 25,000 to get this taro research going. Jeri Ooka brought down couple of
machines from, brought from the Mainland to take water temperature. I think he told me he spent, was 12,000 already.
MY:1465 Me? Well, I’m going school, so I cannot work too hard, eh? So I help ’em maybe deliver. That’s why, we’re lucky because they had that business. So we can go school with good clothes. That’s
why, guys in school used to tell me, “How come you come school with nice clothes every time?” “Well, cleaning business, you can wear nice clothes.”
102 MY:1482 So, when we work there, two or three boys, they wen quit. They wen go Lewers Cooke,
see. They ask me, “Why you no go? You get the first preference.” So when I told the president that I cannot take that job, boy, he shake my hand, boy. He said, “You real good man. You loyal to one boss.
That’s what I like. That’s a good man.” He no tell me no good. He tell me, “You good. That’s very, very good. You are very loyal to your boss. That’s what’s good.”
MY:1483 Yeah. And then, I couldn’t get retired. ’Cause the boss don’t want to let me go. He tell me, “No. You come one week, only two weeks, all right, you work for me. You come half day all right.” All
conditions, he gave me. But my wife tell me, “Like you, you go inside one time, once you get inside, you no can come home already because you get your customers, you going to take care.” You know, any
business salesman, when you get your customer, you got to take care. And me, that’s one guy, I no like the guy feel bad. I got to take care until he’s satisfied. I said, “The only thing I can do, I take the order
from my house. My home office, and I do for you. Is that all right?” He said, “Well, no can help, eh?” I say, “You no have to pay me.”
NC:192 It’s not luck so much as.... well, it could be. But, how can be every fellow get hard luck.
When the flood comes, he sweeps everybody. It affects everybody. You cannot tell me everybody get hard luck. It’s just nature’s work. That’s one thing you cannot stop. If a flood coming down, how you
going stop? It’s just impossible to stop. They ask me one time, “What if was human being do that?” I said, “I shoot that fellow down.”
NC:200 Oh, just one fellow tell so-and-so’s girl, he think. He said, “I’ll ask for you.” So one day, go
down, he ask and then make Then they tell me certain thing. I went down. My uncle was down Honolulu. I was down there staying with my uncle. One day, I just get the taxi, take a look how she look
like. Then come back.
OC:2 So instead that, when go down the Hawaiian boys tell me, “We go buy paper and sell.” OC:2 When come to Saturday, this man tell me, “you go buy some food”
SU:1537 Right across. Right behind Smile Cafe, amusement park. That’s where Mr. Hosoi–I think younger brother than the one that used to operate the funeral parlor, yeah–used to run gambling joint
after four o’clock. He used to order me sandwiches. He tell me, “Make any kind of sandwich.” So I used to make cheese, tomato, egg–the cheap kind, eh? Those days, only ten cents, eh? So, I used to make
about four, five dozen. Deliver down his place. He pay me cash.
SU:1541 Yeah. Because he get experience in cooking, everything. Him and another Teruya is the
co-owners of this Hibiscus Cafe on Bethel Street. He tell me, “You folks, instead of loafing, you better do something.” So he just help me out and do everything for me, see. I was young boy that time.
TA:36 I know she used to tell me when she seen the Hawaiian, that’s a biggest people they ever
saw. Big Hawaiians, eh? You see, when they come on the boat, they have to come on the rowboat, eh? To the landing. The big ship won’t land, see? That’s when she seen the first Hawaiian, they row out.
WK:695 No, not exactly. My father died when I was only 11 years old, and I know my mother told me he came from Fukuoka, Japan. I don’t know where is that place. Maybe I go now, I going see, eh?
We going, eh?
WK:700 Our assignment is. My grandfather used to tell me, “Eh, after school you come back, eh.
Go do your job, you know. Before you go play, you do your job.” And they very strict about it. “And then, if you don’t do ’em, you won’t have no supper, you know.”
WK:717 He tell me, “Well if you want to raise taro, you listen to what I tell you. You listen to
what I teach you how to raise taro. All right? First of all, when you want to raise taro, you got to have your field all clear.” You get to have your seedling, what they call before pula pula, you know, your huli,
they call that. Your seedling all taken care of. You no can cut. But I no can explain to you guys, but you have to cut the seedling certain way that they won’t die; all that kind stuff, he told me.
WK:720 Yeah. And then they tell me, “Eh, come dig. You want huli, you come dig.” YA:1048 Just, what do you call da kine classified labor. Classified labor, that’s a higher pay labor,
see. That’s what Mr. Cooper–he’s the manager of the labor board–he tell me that, see. “They cannot give you no job as any other job because we have machinist union here.” Those days, they have machinist
union. Come from the Mainland. So, they not allow anybody work on the machine shop to run the
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machine. Only the union, machinist union, can run, see? So, Mr. Cooper tell me, “Well, I tell you. You was a veteran. You have the veteran’s privilege. I put you in there for work as a classified labor. You do
labor work under them, but you are a better kind labor, little bit higher labor.” You know, 3.20 one day, now.
YA:1055 Then, after that, we find out – the house was very cheap before, you know. You rent one house for ten, twelve dollar, one month, you know. Bumbai, my wife say, “Well, we got to go find our
own house. twelve dollars one month we pay, but we no going get nowhere else.” My wife tell me, “We go up Kalihi.” Look around over here, see? We come over here, no more house, only bushes. Only one
road and all nothing but bushes.
YA:1056 And then, I figure, well, more better we raise the house. We get a basement, see, to stay. Only 500. We get a contractor. He raise the house up, put stone wall all around for 500. Now, 1,000,
no can make that, I think. And jack the house up together for 500, you know. So, we raise this house up. One Japanese man contractor tell me, “Why not I jack the house up for you. Instead of one-and-a-
half story, two-story high? And I build one big shack in the back for you can do all the laundry work for you.” Chee, 700 or something. Seven hundred fifty dollars, or what. I was so foolish. I never like to
build. I didn’t want to.
5.13.4.6 tel X TO YOU There are several canonical examples of YOU as the addressee of tel:
AK:616 Yeah. Maybe, for instance, flood coming down or road need repairing or something like
that. Then we go out, “How about giving us some money to clean certain, certain place.” And they tell you, “What part of the valley?” “Oh we have lot of bushes and all that.” Then they send overseers, or
whatever. Engineers come down there to see. AK:649 But today, you get hard time get seed from all these other farmers, they no give you seeds,
you know. Unless they finish with their place, they think they all right. Then they give you. Before, you help yourself. So I said, before is really different than now. Now, maybe even they tell you they sell you,
15 cents one seed. Well, you had to pay. Before, you never do that. You don’t pay anything. Before you get ’em, and nothing. You help, you ask, “You using your seed?” I said, “No.” Because sometime we pull
we no use the seed.
EB:1138 Well, I no can tell you that. Because I heard the story, I think, most Ilocano come in, than
Visaya, I think. EB:1145 Yeah, lately, they come. But that kind place, come and go. Because they no like da kine
job. Small pay, too, eh? Maybe. I don’t know. That’s why, I told you, I’m only the sucker. Stay there long time. Portuguese, Japanese come. Or Hawaiian. Yeah.
ER:808 And his brother, Tsuneo, but stay Moloka‘i, the brother. All about our age. Some maybe one or two year older than us. Some little bit young. Only us young boys every time one bunch. But
sometime the old kind guys, when they like look cowboy show, they sit with us. They tell you, oh, they going inside show. Then when come home time, they tell, “Where you guys go?” “We going show.” “Ah,
I no bring money.” “Oh, I get, here, we go.”
GF:352 When they came, well, “You try. From November to December, January. If the job no good, you can go back where you came from. Go find other jobs.” I think he came in October, you know. Then
I told him, “All right. You sure like the business now?” “Oh, I love to raise taro. That’s good. That’s easy. Easy. That’s nothing to it.” Then.... It’s all right I tell you like that, how they started? Or you don’t want.
NC:167 Never. He called me two times. After that, he still called me. I said, “No, I cannot do such business. if I sell to you and I take the taro and sell to the other fellow, you don’t like that, too. ” And
then he said, “Oh, yeah. It’s hard. You cannot find some for me?” I said, “I told you that I don’t do business for the other fellow. I do my business for my own only.” So he came up, he scout Waipio. He
went try to look for dry land taro. I don’t know if he got any or not.
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TA:46 I see what they plant. And then they tell you, “Oh, you go up. Where the water cool, you
plant lehua. Where the water warm, you plant this and this.”
WK:717 He told me, “Well if you want to raise taro, you listen to what I tell you. You listen to
what I teach you how to raise taro. All right? First of all, when you want to raise taro, you got to have your field all clear.” You get to have your seedling, what they call before pula pula, you know, your huli,
they call that. Your seedling all taken care of. You no can cut. But I no can explain to you guys, but you have to cut the seedling certain way that they won’t die; all that kind stuff, he told me.
5.13.4.7 tel X TO SOMEONE There are two canonical examples of tel and SOMEONE:
AK:628 I don’t know. I think he must put that himself. So he told me I can have the book, he was
almost going to die. He like give me so one time I went back there. He gave me the book and I told somebody I get one book about medicine. Then he asked me, “Let me barrow.” They no return until
today. Oh, lot of medicine. Us Hawaiians, some medicines you just can go and pick now. But some medicine you cannot. You just not can go get, you have to go in the night, during the night, just by
yourself going to where to get the medicine. And nobody else.
AK:628 I don’t know. I think he must put that himself. So he told me I can have the book, he was
almost going to die. He like give me so one time I went back there. He gave me the book and I told somebody I get one book about medicine. Then he asked me, “Let me barrow.” They no return until
today.
5.13.4.8 tel X TO PEOPLE There is a single canonical example of tel and PEOPLE:
FD:287 We didn’t have all this kind trouble like nowdays. That’s why I always tell to people,
“Well, there’s a saying in the Bible say, ’There’s a day will come, there’s this day of starvation, when everybody is going to suffer.’” And it is already now, it’s starting. When the wind come blow everything
we don’t have fruits. And then now, the rotting taro, rot in the taro patch now, everybody is suffering. So everybody today’s knowledge, they try to use all kind chemical, everything to mix with the soil, to better
themself. But I don’t. I tell my husband, ”You know, I always remember this saying, ’There is a day come, the day of starvation, it happens when the land so all over the place.’”
5.13.4.9 tel X ABOUT ME There is a single canonical example of tel with ME as a topic complement:
MY:1479 This guy from Manoa was talking about Waikiki people. All the Waikiki people get together, old people and all. And this guy, he said—Monkawa was there, too. All the Waikiki bunch. And
Mr. Yasumatsu was there. This guy was telling bad about me. “This ‘Mahjong’ is no good beach boy. He’s no good boy.” Yasumatsu man tell, “You wrong. Kono hito ga ichiban Waikiki. or ” he said. “This
boy is Waikiki de ichiban ii koto shite iru. number one, Waikiki.” He said, “Why?” “He do only good thing for Waikiki people.” He tell, “How come?” That’s the truth, that’s why. I did so much for the
Waikiki people. I do a lot of thing for them. That’s why, he tell, “See, this man is good boy. You no talk bad about him.”
5.13.4.10 tel SOMETHING ABOUT SOMETHING In a previous paper Stanwood 1997, I was able to find only the following example to confirm the
presence of this valence in HCE:
105 MY:1462 Japanese peddler. But, you know, regular da kine food peddler, Japanese peddler. And
then, there was only one Chinese peddler. The manapua man carry with a stick, eh? He carry. Balance one in the front and one in the back. Yeah, he was the only one, Chinese, in Waikiki, he was. Then, they
told you about the Chinese house back of the Sasaki? There was a Chinese, old Chinese, religious- looking house. They used to smoke opium. But nobody bother them because they old people.
I am pleased that further investigation has provided further confirmation of the presence of this valence in HCE. We now have a handful of canonical examples:
GF:321 “Why, you have family not working, not continuing?” “Oh, yeah, I have in-laws. They have lot of lands down here, they kind of giving up and some old people taking over and they already giving
up.” I told them lot of things about Waipio without realizing that they were trying to lend me money to rehabilitate my place. Then they talk to me. “Well, if you want to buy a tractor, we can lend you the
money. Can get someplace to lend you the money.” I said, “Nah, I don’t think anybody lend me money. I think Waipio, that’s the last place anybody want to lend money. ...”
AK:614 Before time, that’s the most things they told me about. That playing cards, swimming,
high dive. Not they never have any others, but that the most sports they have. And the only other way they said, like you have a taro patch to clean, then you have to prepare, make a food. You have to make,
whatever you think you can prepare. Then, they call those to go over there and clean all the patches. They clean the whole thing one day. After that, they eat.
There are also numerous near-canonical examples: AK:627 Why I know this, when I was in Kona, I used to go to see old Hawaiian man. He’s good on
these Hawaiian herbs. But he used to call me moopuna. Moopuna is grandson in Hawaiian. Every time he see me, he tell, “Come, moopuna.” So I go up, talk stories, I ask him. So he was going down there,
something like that see. Then he tell me about the medicine. He has one, was about this size book, like that you know. All kind of medicine. All kind Hawaiian herbs, for colds or broke leg or sprain.
AK:631 None of that I know. I know might be some of these old people, might be they do, but I
don’t know. I’m not sure. I don’t just want to tell about it. Like, my wife’s uncle, the wife is something is like that too, but I don’t know how they do it. I not going just tell they’re kahuna, or what. But in Kona, I
know there’s lot of kahunas in Kona. Kona is a place famous for kahunas. ER:757 Then, when I marry my wife, I asked her any kind Hawaiian word, she know plenty, then
she tell me most about the Hawaiian word. So now, yeah, I can understand Hawaiian, but I no can talk too much. If the people talk, I know what they talking about. But for me answer them, sometime too
hard for me. The easy kind, I can, you know the regular common kind, but the hard one sometime I don’t know.
ER:789 Yeah, for that side. He was Cockett. So that’s how I learn how to cowboy. I learn how to
look the meat, tell you about the meat, this kind. Sometime inside the meat, sometime when you kill too, the meat get da kine TB. So I ask him, “How come you know if the meat get TB?” He said you look
by the liver. The liver, you know, when you kill, just like small little puss. Sometime you press ’em, all bust. That’s mean they...
FD:262 Well, she tells me about it when.... when after, if like when you have a boy friend, if you
do have your period, that’s how you can have your family. You know, when you have a boy friend. That’s how she got us. She tells me that. ’Cause I was the only one in the house. And then, I didn’t care. I
didn’t care. I would have a boy friend. Chinese. But I didn’t care. YA:1042 We stationed Schofield Barracks. And then, the captain like me. Put me go teach ’em.
Every morning, teach the people how to clean the gun for one hour. Little while, and then we had trouble with the mess sergeant. You know, they no feed the people enough food, see? I go bring the
captain down. Tell the captain, “The people hungry. Get enough food. The mess sergeant get plenty left over, they don’t want to feed ’em.” Then the captain tell, “No. I tell you what I do now. If you not
enough food, you stay down on the bench and wait for the food. But if you get enough food, you go. You no get enough, you stay and wait.” Then, they tell the mess sergeant that they got to feed us until we get
enough food. That’s how we get the story come out, see. Otherwise, I never complain about that. I wen just only bring ’em down to the mess hall and tell ’em about it, see.
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