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There is a single near-canonical example of the valence FEEL LIKE. Although this example does not contain the primitive THIS, the token daet is likely decomposable into a combination of THIS and
OTHER. GF:348 He asked me, “You know where the water is kind of deep, waist deep?” “Oh yeah. I get.”
Took me behind there. He baptize me behind there. I surrender to God. Everything. I told Him everything. They tell me, “Don’t confess to me, I’m not God. You confess to God what you do.” I go
behind there, they baptize me in the stream. When I came out, you know, my whole body was tingling. Just like electric. From head to toe. When I came out, I went home. I tell, “Gee, I feel funny, I feel so
good.” So light, you know. Different. Gee, I go swim in there everytime, but I no feel like that. When I went home, I felt so good.
5.15.4 Summary
Our corpus provides supporting evidence for the existence of the following NSM syntactic frames in HCE: FEEL GOOD
FEEL BAD FEEL LIKE THIS
There is no evidence for the standard NSM valences: FEEL SOMETHING GOOD
FEEL SOMETHING BAD
Furthermore, there is no evidence from the corpus to support the following valences: FEEL SOMETHING
FEEL THE SAME FEEL THIS
5.16 DO 5.16.1 Primitive Syntax
The following is the syntactic specification for DO: DO
[SOMETHING GOODBADTHISTHE SAME] TO MEYOUD1 PERSONPEOPLEd1 THINGTHIS
5.16.2 HCE Candidates
The only serious candidate for DO in HCE is du.
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5.16.3 Examples of du
5.16.3.1 du SOMETHING There are numerous straight forward examples of du and SOMETHING occurring in canonical frames:
AK:615 We need something to be done in Waipio, we go up there. And we did too. When we had the flood, we did too. We diverted the water, that Hiilawe Stream water. Before was going right near the
school wall; we did something for that. They gave us the appropriation. We go up there, we put our problems to them and then they come out and they see. Then the Waipio people get the job, no
outsiders, just the Waipio.
AK:616 Yeah, they give us the money. Of course, they get the money, but we do the work, then
they pay. We were good, our club, we did lot of good things.
AK:622 No. Only I know those years when I was living down there, and no such thing as that. Was
just what I say, the Filipinos, they were good. You know, most time, Filipinos, they try to do something, but no. Even if they drunk, they always really good. We all share together. We never did hear anybody
stealing.
FD:296 I tell my daughter-in-law. Let him do those things because your children, you only sit
home in the house. If you keep on doing your things, every day, regular, every day, you don’t have hard time. She tell, “Hard time.” I say, “Yeah, hard. If you don’t make use of your time. In the morning, after
breakfast, you clean up your house and everything. Then go do your laundry. Then after that, you tend to your children because you bathe them, and time to feed, time for them to go to bed.” I usually do
that.
FD:296 If you do things by your own self, you know the value of things, that is going to help you
too. There’s so much things, that when you-raise taro, there’s so much things that you can think that, that taro would help you. I know for myself. Like, if you have some bills to pay. You have not enough
like now, we get our income. Everything is so high. Like us, our foodstuff is very expensive to have, everything when you buy. Is not enough.
GF:311 And I asked the plantation to relieve me, you know, from the plantation. I want to do something else, working something else. The manager don’t want to relieve me. Then, when I was
working in the mill, I didn’t know anything about sugar cane or anything. So when I worked there, well, the Chinese man was sugar boiler but there was somebody superior, higher than him. Haoles, the bosses.
I went to see them. I say, “I want to learn everything about sugar. I want to put my life in sugar. Learn every thing what the processing of sugar.”
JB:62 No. As far as hungry, no. We always had the food. But because only of my parents was drunkard and they didn’t care. I don’t know how drunkard look like. Because, you know, when you
young, I’m not the drinking type when I was young. But when I came old, then I begin to started do those things. And....
KK:114 An Kele said, “Oh ma, don do a ting like dat Ek ’e kiss you” KL:125 Bot he–he said so. Wat’s ’is name? Kailoa. Kailoa was... doing someting. He–da kine.
MM:377 Well, I feel sorry if the sugar close up. But if the president do something, if they keep up the same way, what, eighteen cents a pound. If eighteen cents a pound, they can barely make ’em. Some
plantations, they make a profit. But if they go down to twelve, the one they talking about, twelve, they no can broke even even. Any business, if you no can broke even, you no can run the business. So, I hope
Spark and Dan, and Akaka can do something. Now, even Waialua going close down. O‘ahu going get plenty unemployment, no?
MT:1169 So, at that time, we had no problems. Until this past couple of years, then we had the
problems came about. See, people over here is funny. They figure, when you do something, they figure that you going to gain, not them. So, as I say, it’s kind of family thing over here, so if they had one of
their relatives in there being president or something, then things might be different. They figure that I
117 was running the thing for my benefit, which, in general, was for everybody. Everybody is going to
benefit. But they just couldn’t see that point at that time. Really hard. MT:1183 They know the problem. But they ain’t doing nothing. That’s what I mean, that’s why I
told Jeri Ooka on Wednesday, “You guys have to do something,” I said. He tell, “Well, you know, this is something new,” he said. I tell, “Not new, for five years.” See, at that time, we had the Association.
MT:1184 You get this old generation out, the taro industry would be a failure, pau. Waipio Valley
would be nothing. That’s the way I look at it. Not that it’s just because I’m young, but I’m going to do something else for my job. I cannot see the future of taro already. You can take notice how much land
is idle. And you cannot expect Bishop to come in and help us; because the rental, what they making is small, is not that big for them put the investment back. Which, they have no interest out of the taro
industry, anyway. Only by leasing the land.
MT:1192 Well, no. Actually, I have things to do too sometimes. Well, actually, I gain on the
hauling. The trucker over here charge the shop 73 cents a bag. So when I haul 25 bags to Hilo, I getting 73 cents plus, plus this now. So it comes out to this price. So it kind of pays the gas and whatever I have
to do in Hilo. But I have a little bit more drinking money.
MY:1477 And then, Mrs. King, she get big ruler. You do something no good, bang, she whack
you. I used to be the rascal one. You know, the kamani leaf, you know how big, eh? Kamani leaf, eh? When I see dog shit, I cover the kamani leaf on top there. The guy come pick ’em up, he got to pick ’em
up, eh? He don’t know. But when he pick ’em, he mad like hell. “Who wen do that?” 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
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.”
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.
SU:1566 The first thing I do is call the radio and newspaper guys, to ho‘omalimali them, eh? Then
you get all the publicity you want. And end of the year, you do the same thing again. That’s why I get picture after picture. Like Star-Bulletin, Advertiser, Nippu Jiji, Hawaii Hochi, all that. But today, young
kids, no, they don’t do those things. What they should do is give them the results of the day they play to the newspaper and the radio so they can broadcast over. The more they broadcast, the more people go
listen, the more they going come out and they going get more support.
TA:42 Because he took a stand for the farmers instead of for the poi shop. That’s how the poi shop
got angry with him. Especially the Honolulu Poi get angry with him. And then Honolulu Poi, they done something that he couldn’t take it. I think I better not put that in the tapes. You see, bumbai, those
Honolulu Poi or some other of those poi shops in Honolulu might go over there and read that and say, “Oh, what the heck this guy saying?”
TA:48 I leave little bit water but I don’t let the water run. Let little bit water come in, little going out. Maybe about inch or so water. Lot of people they dry, then easier to pull. You see, we dry the patch
long–this soil is clear soil–he packs hard again. Then you have to go disc, harrow or do something like that. But as long as get water in there, the paddies won’t come hard. Like me, I no more machine. So if I
hire you guys over there and you go work for me, I have to pay ’em. Just keep little water in there so the ground stay moist all the time.
TA:50 I tell him just work. And then I do something else. So I don’t know how many hours he
work. The faster he finish, the faster he get the money. TA:50 So I’m Hilo working. I tell him, “Tuesday, you pull so many bag.” I don’t have to stay here.
Weekend, when I come down, I pay him off. All they got to do, they pull ’em and they just leave ’em over there and I used to get Mock Chew come haul my taro for me. He take ’em up for me. Only thing
they do is put a tag on that so the poi shop know that’s my taro.
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WK:707 Because... maybe, something they do you don’t want, you get angry, eh? Actually what I
say is anger. When you angry, you like fight. Those young days, no? Any young blood, they like fight. Today, I no can fight, I go sleep.
5.16.3.2 du THIS There are a substantial number of canonical examples with du and THIS:
AK:595 And then one time he didn’t tell me that he was learning how. The sister showed him how to weave hat. So one night I went over the house without him knowing, I caught him weaving hat. So I
asked him, “What you doing this for?” “You know I get no money, I like buy cigarette. I sell one hat, I can get cigarette.” So he asked me better I might as well learn. I said, “Yeah, too hard this job.” So, I
didn’t try it. I never learn how to make hat.
AK:620 When I was in Kona, some of my uncles, they are musicians. And then I like to, you know. but my father doesn’t want me to play music. He tell me that’s all lazy men’s job that. He was really kind
of old-fashioned guy, you know. He always want me to do this and do this. Work, never mind with music. But I like little bit. When you get party, you get together, you always grab something to play, eh?
AK:646 The Waipio people. They get together, they say, “We do this for this.” Maybe that’s their
candidate. Give little blow-out for the candidate. AK:659 Well, I think they rather come with us. Since my brother-in-laws young yet, they get along.
They go out movie. Only when they go out movie or something like that, I’ll give them some money go out. For spending money. They were nice to me, so I treat then nice. Everytime. They come around, do
this. Helping, this and that. I treat them nice. They really good, though. BB:010 The sheet metal. He cut ’em, eh and he make ’em into one tank like. For make the okolehau
machine, you gotta make ’em like that. He make just like a mass production way, he make. When he tell me, he do this all one day. And then you know the funnel kin’, the kin’ funnel like that, come down kin’,
eh; he say he make that too. What he cut, eh he solder ’em that night. Mass production; not he go make this, he complete one; not complete one, he make all different kind sizes. Now he got ’em all made so he
just get this two together and he solder. And he get the other one, put over here. All half done. ’A’s what he used to do.
EB:1145 No, no, no, no. Nobody watch me. So long my boss, he say, “Go do this,” I go do it. Not
da kine people, they watch your ass every time, no. When my boss wen go Honolulu, I take care everything. Only myself in the house and only myself in the ranch. He told me, “I will go Honolulu with
my wife. So, you take care everything.” See? That’s how it goes. FD:294 So, I told my husband, “This taro rot, maybe we going get time to rest.” That’s why, I was
just talking to him last night. Let’s travel. Get rid of all the pigs, I tell him, and let’s go travel. Good was, we sit down, we started to talk. We better go enjoy when our feet is still strong. I do this to all; like him,
he just work is work. My husband, to tell you folks the truth, he don’t talk much, but what he care is work. That’s why I tell you folks, I’m lucky, I don’t have to bother him.
MM:335 Oh, when I came over here, after I started to work, I used to raise bee, too. You know the honeybee? And I used to get honey. So, I had kind of plenty boxes. Maybe I had about ten boxes already,
and I thought to myself, “Hey, if I gonna do this all by hand, gonna be big job.” So what I did, I ordered what they call “extractor,” you know.
NK:950... king. When people come in, like that, only her there because all the other people, they
go out; they do this; they do that; and then, not time. When this people come and when the king sit down and talk with the other people, they drink. So, she entertain them. She oli and she chant at the
same time. Sometime, she only oli. Oli in Hawaiian, ooh, the.... Too bad we never learn. Anyway, our sisters, not interested.
SU:1521 Because those days, they leave all the tools in one place, nobody steal everything. So I go down there. I go open up, I look, and file. And then, come home, and I do the same thing, the way how
they do it. Then Mr. Murakawa say, “Well, you do this.” So, okay, I do it. And then, after I go home, I do
119 the same thing again. I took my square measure, I measure everything, and I write ’em down. And then
he assigned me with a Mr. Shimizu to go to all different camps to repair. Repair the steps, and then kitchen sink, everything. Most of the...
SU:1522 Then after you finish that, wall, partition. But you have to open up where the door going to be, so you have to learn how to read the blueprint, see. But blueprint reading is easy. So I did it. And
then, after that, he teach me how to put up the window. He told me, “Well, do this, do that, do that.” Okay, I did it. One thing help me was that I read the book. You know? Then after working about couple
years at plantation, I decide to myself, well, no sense go ahead and stay in plantation making only one dollar one day. Work so hard, eh? If you work twenty-five days, you get ten cents one day, bonus.
SU:1530 Yeah, outside. And washing is same thing, too. Everybody wash. But you have to take a chance, eh? Bathroom, furo, everybody go. And then, they give everybody chance to operate the place.
You do this one month, you do this one month, we do this one month, and then everybody pay fifty cents one month. Fifty cents to just go inside there.
5.16.3.3 du THE SAME We have only a single canonical example of du occuring with da seim:
FD:258 Even only one leg, may take him all day for go fishing. The fish might grab but couldn’t take the bait out. He twine that squid leg around the hook and he twine ’em with the suji, string. And
that thing stay there until it’s up to him to change. Boy, when he catch fish, half bag, sometimes, only that moi. That’s all good eating fish, you know. Today is so wasteful. You buy two box of frozen shrimp,
you only catch about two, three fish sometimes. So wasteful. I used to tell my sons to do the same like the grandfather. Just use the homemade hook. But not one of them tried. So easy, they just take the store
one and attach ’em on the reel. That’s all. That’s why I tell my husband, “Someday, you should do that.” Today everything is wasted.
However, we have several canonical examples of du occuring with da seim ting: AK:598 After steamed, we bring the taro out, we wash in the tub, wash with the water. And then
after that, we peel the taro. After you peel the taro, then you grind, put in the machine, grind. Then, after that, the poi come out; those days, we have flour sack bag, we put in there. Twenty-two pound, or
20 pound. Those days, the poi was cheap you know. And then we have a ti leaf, we set the ti leaf this way. You know the ti leaf, bigger ones, one leaf each, one, maybe get about 12 leaves. Then you put the
sack on, then you wrap ’em up, then you tie that up for keep it fresh. Then your 50 cents, you do the same thing but you wrap something like you wrap package. That’s what we do.
AK:650 But if you get water everytime, never work hard because only the banks. So long you don’t let the one from the bank go down inside the taro patch. Lots of work, but today they have poison.
Before never had. Like me, when I was keeping my taro, I go around eight times. Now, if I clean all around my patches, just one time, right around. Take me about three months, little over. To come back
again. Do the same thing. I go eight times, then I harvest.
MM:373 So, I got to plan. When I finish this field, I got to go this field, this field. And then, when you burn–now, let’s say, now, this field get hundred acres. Now, when I go over there, when you going
think that the crane and everything going come inside there? Maybe in the morning. All right. You figure to yourself, maybe you burn twenty acres. Twenty acres going carry you to tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow morning about nine, ten o’clock. Then, tomorrow morning, you going do the same thing. You going to burn another twenty acres. Or if you think little short, you going burn twenty-two, twenty-
three.
NK:952 All they do is to clean all the grass. Ho hana–or pull the grass. Leave ’em inside the field, like that, dry. And sometime, you have to hulihuli the grass so dry. If you just going to leave like that,
they going grow up again. Even today, you do the same thing. If you pull the grass, you just leave like that, they going grow up again.
120 SU:1524 Yeah. Feed the pig, and then feed the chickens. And then, go to school. And then after we
come back from school, me, I like sports, see. Everybody come home, so I run and come home. I run and come home to finish all the detail that I have to do. You got to feed the pig again, see, and chickens.
Then, after I get time, I go in the pasture with all the boys, go play baseball. I do the same thing over and over, day after day, day after day, to help him out.
SU:1549 Right by cash register. Yeah, you know, I tell you, people really honest. Really honest, you know. Really honest. Of course, not every time busy, you see. When we moved after we got condemned
down Waikiki, we moved to Kapi‘olani, we did the same thing. Two girls in the morning cannot keep up with the crowd that used to come in the morning. We used to open six o’clock in the morning. The
crowd rush. So we did the same thing. Pastry, we have, oh, about two feet by two feet pastry. We put all kind of pastry inside there with cover on, with a cigar box on the side. We list doughnut, two for so
much; biscuits, two for so much. They put the money inside. Really honest, though. Really honest.
SU:1557 When we go down in the morning, I used to bring pastry and coffee for the watchmen. I used to give them. They’ll just pass. And then, wait for the ferry. Drive the car to the ferry, then go. And
when we go the other side, do the same thing, too. So, come home time, I used to bring home egg, butter, you know, ham. And pass. The MP used to let me pass down there. So I had no trouble at all.
TA:39 To the guys that pull. You raising taro, see. Well, I going tell you 20 bags and I take the bags to you, 20 bags. Until today, they do the same thing.
The data raises some interesting issues with respect to the metalanguage. Both du da seim and du da seim ting appear to be semantically identical to DO THE SAME, or for that matter DO THE SAME THING.
So does one base the correct form in the metalanguage on the SE forms or on the HCE forms? It is clear, however, regardless of the answer to that question, it seems that these HCE examples are
able to accommodate either of these alternate NSM forms. 5.16.3.4 du X TO ME
The following near-canonical examples contain the HCE semantic molecule as as the patient of du. FD:281 They didn’t want us to move here, because they were wondering how come we get the
place. Lot of them like the house, but they had some single men were staying in here. He said, well, “The single men we can put them to smaller place.” Like the kitchen all in one place. They used to have the
camps over there, and they don’t need the big house like this. But you know what they were doing to us? We come in here paint the house; you know the mud, they used to paint ’em all over the walls.
I assume that the explication of as contains the primitive ME. 5.16.3.5 du X TO YOU
There is a single clear canonical example of du with YOU as the patient. AK:631 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. Really kahuna. For instance, if I get mad with you, or something like that, I do something to you. I just go over there and you just pray like that, and you
dead. That’s it, you go.
5.16.3.6 du X TO SOMEONE The following near-canonical examples contain HCE semantic molecules as the patient of du.
BB:007 Nice guy your father, taxi driver. Oh, he do good to the.... ’A’s why everybody like him.
The town, eh — you say [name deleted]..... You know, one thing he good, eh. You know over there, you know, by [name deleted] over there, [name deleted] over there, and then [name deleted] and [name
deleted] over there – the bakery. You know, your father is so good, eh.
121 BB:013 My friend, eh – [name deleted], [name deleted] – wha-tyou-call, the young brother wen
listen. He wen join the Japan army and they wen send him in the submarine. He went down California coast; they got sunk over there. ’A’s where he died – the young one. Toru, wha-tyou-call, no like. They
bring ’em over there, they tie his leg and HANG ’im up. ’A’s what they did to him. “Chee this guys mean guys,” he tell me.
ER:788 Yeah. He teach young boys, too. He teach, and he good. He no mad, this man. No matter
what you do to him, he no mad. Hard old man for get mad. You get mad with him, you can grumble grumble, no, he no say nothing. Bumbai he tell you, “Why you come mad like that. No good. You gotta
be good to all the people. No come mad.” Like me, I wen go school, eh. I no learn in school. But I learn all from work. What I work, I learn from the old people, I try pick up from them.
FD:269 I don’t know. But the rest, just they say give ’em one spank by the okole. I say, “What for?”
I didn’t have, I didn’t do that all to them. But they were okay, nothing happened. Like this one, well he got in accident, that’s why he died. That’s why all my children today.
FD:291 It’s not I not supposed to work, but I’m the type, you know, good fun when you kid days,
you like to go in the mud and after that you hit mud each other. I used to do that to my dad, oh my dad used to get mad. Just to get away from the taro patch already is enough; the job is done, better get out.
FD:294 So, I told my husband, “This taro rot, maybe we going get time to rest.” That’s why, I was just talking to him last night. Let’s travel. Get rid of all the pigs, I tell him, and let’s go travel. Good was,
we sit down, we started to talk. We better go enjoy when our feet is still strong. I do this to all; like him, he just work is work.
GF:325 No, sugar company get nothing to do. But sometimes the farmers, they not so good to one another. Especially, like Toledo, eh? He go in the river, he dredge the river. He damage other people’s
property. Toledo did that to me lot of times, though. But I didn’t do anything to him. That’s up to him.
I assume that him, daed, dem are explicatable in terms of SOMEONE. 5.16.3.7 du X TO SOMETHING
Currently there is single near-canonical example containing du and non-personal patient. AK:656 To me, it’s the poison that they are using. I’m for sure it’s poison. You see, like before we
use, they were using Prenite. Prenite never did do lot of damage to this taro. Or, on to the patches they used. No more disease too. You never hear taro get sick. But today, they get all kind problems.
Presumably taero is decomposable in terms of SOMETHING.
5.16.4 Summary
