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know where the water trough. And the cowboys who know over there, every time they know how go outside. Me, I go inside there, I get lost, they gotta come find me.
MM:353 And then, we make bigger car, bigger than three tons sometime, whenever the car is getting less, yo. Sometime during the day, if the mill get trouble like that, they don’t grind, that’s why
the car is fill up with cane, eh? So, less cars coming out. Da kine time, well, we know already, ey, the mill get trouble. Only few cars. We watch the locomotive. When we can see the locomotive, ey, only few
cars came. And when the few cars come, how we used to work is, majority of the fellas, we get what they call piler boys, see.
5.30.5 Examples of samtaim
5.30.5.1 samtaim SAY-Clause There are several canonical examples of samtaim combining with SAY as a temporal adjunct:
AK:602 Yeah, Wednesday we go to the poi shop. Nobody to work taro patch for pull taro, whatever
it is. Sometime the boss tell, “You go this way.” But most time we go to the taro patch. Sometime, something else the boss want you to go, you go do that.
ER:786 He say why no good, because the bull, just like lean, no more weight. You raise ’em up maybe two year or three year, by the time you kill ’em, no more weight. And this other one, you look the
body, broad. This guy, even small, he get weight. They go according to weight because you going sell the meat by the pound, eh. They go by the weight. So you study. Me too, I study, I look how like that, how
the bull. Then sometime he tell you, “Okay you pick up ten.” So you go inside there you look. One guy follow you, eh. So, you think this one maybe get, you point. You just point, this guy take ’em away.
Maybe two guys stay follow you, they go try take ’em away, separate ’em, eh, from the bunch. Then you look, you point, you say this one, this one. Maybe he tell you pick up ten. That’s why you pick up ten,
they put ’em inside one pen.
ER:811 So we go shoot goat, we take them, get something for eat eh. “Ah,” he tell me, “okay we go in the morning.” Some guys, they go in the night. Because down there kind of big, the people used to
stay. Kind of plenty people, eh. And down there get good fun, too. And sometime he tell me, “Ey, we go down tonight.” “Nah, I no like go down nighttime. I like go down daytime, so I can go get some meat.”
Give some fish for them guys. Only me I go, and I go eat free kaukau, no good, eh. And then I tell, “Nah, we go shoot goat. You and me.” Sometime he like go in the evening.
ER:887 Then bumbai, I study little bit then I catch on, eh. Sometime, they tell me, “You go 53-
17.” I stay look, I tell, “What place the machine stay? Fifty-three this side, or below or way down the top?” They tell me, “The straight road going up.” You know from the station, going up one straight road,
you go straight up there, then you going see the machine. The machine all inside, you go look what number you supposed to go. Then that’s how I go learn.
5.30.5.2 samtaim DO-Clause There are several canonical examples of samtaim occuring with DO as an adjunct:
AK:634 You know, in Waipio those days, they had lot of horses. Lot of people have horses. And then, some of them, they like go out catch the horses. You see horse are here and there, they hanging. A
rope on the tree. Make one loop on the tree. Then you drive the horse. While they all go through that, he choke on the rope. That thing come back, eh. That’s only way they can catch the horse. Or sometimes,
they catch somebody’s horse. They catch wild horse too. You know, sometimes you do that, you hurt somebody’s horse, see. But those days down there, had lot of boys, they go out catch horse. They harm
somebody’s horse. I know, I had some horses, I lost horses from like that.
AK:659 Well, anything you think you like sing, eh. We do that sometime, with the boys, they
come down. They used to get lot of young boys down Waipio. Then, instead of they going home to their
240 place and live with the parents, they live with me and my wife. I been keeping lot of them. I take them
look like my children, you know. Because my brother-in-laws, they were young, eh. They all come play. But they all stay. They can take us like father and mother. Or they call us “Aunty” and “Uncle.” Stay
with us. Oh, everyday. They no go home.
GF:304 Sometimes we do. 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.
5.30.5.3 samtaim HAPPEN-Clause There is only a single canonical example of samtaim combining with HAPPEN as an adjunct:
AK:617 No, not too bad, though. We had happen sometime but we go up there, “Eh, too much
water, I think, this side, we got to need little bit more water.” Then we block little bit so we get water. We block with stones, you know. Pile stones little bit, the water come down this side. Most time, we
never had problems.
5.30.5.4 samtaim THINK-Clause There are two canonical examples of samtaim combining with THINK as an adjunct:
ER:824 They talk story sometime in the evening, or early in the morning, plenty mynah birds make plenty noise. Certain place, plenty mynah bird. So when you think da kine, you think ghost, eh, obake.
The way they.... Tell how come the bird all make noise like that. They tell maybe get da kine, eh. So you come scared. When single boy you stay here, all nighttime, they talk story, eh, the old people talking
story, you go listen. Sometime you think too spooky, ah, more better go home for sleep. You no like listen, bumbai you come scared, eh.
NC:155 Yeah, they take ’em home. Eat ’em. You know, sometimes I think it’s superstitious. After
you take ’em home, then they offer like that. They say that thing already eat and everything. How can you tell if they eat or not? That’s one thing I cannot see. They say they eat. How can you tell me they
eat?
5.30.5.5 samtaim WANT-Clause There are numerous canonical examples of samtaim occuring with WANT as an adjunct:
AK:595 Shrimp, that gori, oopu and all those things. Of course, that’s good, they fry but sometime the family wants to eat those things raw, eh? And I cannot. I taste but, not bad. After I try, all right, it
was good. Because Waipio, you have the warabi there, you know that warabi. They had lot of wild watercress. Oh, never let get anything starve there, you get.
AK:620 Wherever, we having a luau here, then we hold that over here. Sometimes we, the club, like get little bit more money, we make a concert. We make open little concert. Get the old people into
the program and all that. Get little bit money, maybe 1 a ticket, we make that. Everybody come. ER:766 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:786 Mrs. Forbes. She’s the secretary, yeah. So that’s how they keep record. They keep record of
the cow, how they growing, what the breed. Then sometime maybe, they like change breed, maybe over here come inbreed, yeah, like that. So they buy bull from Parker Ranch. They buy maybe ten bull,
then you keep ’em.
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ER:815 The company had big garden over there, so Sunday morning sometime, we like eat
spinach. Most time we go get spinach. ER:821 Ah, that, I don’t know too much. But, I only know when I go Keomuku, my mother-in-law
make Hawaiian medicine. She and the father make Hawaiian medicine. Every time when I go down there, they make. Even me sometime I get sick, they make. Sometime I no like take sour, huh, but I
take. They give me Hawaiian medicine. Even my sister, my half-sister. ER:868 Yeah, the spy or what. That’s da kine guys we scared. Sometimes we stay go, maybe we
look, “Eh, one man walking over there. That’s one man.” You know da kine Japanese, the one they stay Keomuku, sometime they holoholo by the beach, yeah. We look, “Eh, Papa, you no can go. You gotta
stay home inside the house.” Sometime he like go by the sand, go look, eh. Most the time when we stay down there, most Japanese, might be them enemy, you don’t know, eh. That’s why me and him, we look,
we see Japanese, we stay hide, yeah. We like see, maybe in the water, they make sign or what. We watch him, eh, until he go already. Maybe he tired stay in the house, he go walk by the beach, yeah. We
thought maybe they go make signals, eh, maybe these all Japanese, eh.
ER:881 But in the morning, you gotta go stand in line, what they call picket? Yeah, picket. You gotta go picket until all the labor yards kind of cool off, yeah, then you go eat, lunchtime. Evening time
you can go eat. But still yet, you gotta go show up by the union hall. Sometime they like you go picket, then you go picket. Then you go stay around; if not, you come home. Bumbai, you gotta go down. They
going tell you what time for come around.
ER:882 So the strike time, never affect us, nothing. Only I heard the harbor guys sometime they like go work, eh. The boss tell go work, they go work. So up here guys, they go down and they go lick
’em. They told me that they jump all inside the water. All they guys. They jump inside the water because they go down there. But us, we never go. Us guys, the ranch guys, they never bother too much.
ER:893 You don’t know who come around. Because sometime we no stay every time cars come around, eh. Sometime they come around, they look dead end, they go back. Then some guys, they just
come in the yard, they tell, “Where this road going?” I tell, “You no can see the road? Over here stop, no more road. Dead end. If you like you can go right through in the tree. This is only for these two house,
this road.” Sometime they like go up the mountain, eh. I tell, “You gotta go by the cemetery way or go this way, go up. Gotta go reach the cemetery and then go up.” Every time they come over here ask me,
eh.
ER:898 Before we go down Maunalei, eh, we go sleep, we go camp. Morning time, we come home. We go evening time. We take only bread. Carry bread. Go down there, go catch crab or what, pulehu.
Put ’em on top charcoal, pulehu, eat, sleep, by the beach. Early morning time, maybe eight o’clock, wake up, come home. Walk, come up the hill. But that time, you young, eh, just like nothing, eh, only walk,
walk. Sometime you like run. Go down time, more easy, eh, go down the hill. Then morning time, you gotta come early, bumbai come hot, yeah, you no like walk, go up. Us guys, every time we come home
early. No like stay late, bumbai come hot. And we no stay evening, bumbai come dark, we no see. You go walk down there. We used to walk till by Maunalei where the house stay.
YA:1073 Go downtown, fishmarket, King Street. And then, go walk around Chinatown, buy some-
thing, come home, eh? Or sometime you like go Waikiki, you just ride the bus all the way down Waikiki. And if you like go different place, you just transfer. Before, I no more sixtyfive, I no can get the
pass. Later on, I get pass. I no need ask for transfers. I just go to the place. I like go different place, I get off, I catch another bus. Just show the pass only, see? So, that’s how da kine life I get. Good life, you
know, but. I no worry, see.
5.30.5.6 samtaim FEEL-Clause There is a single canonical example of samtaim combining with FEEL as a clausal adjunct:
242 FD:274 Yeah, that thing just like the tea leaves. Small leaves. And then have the small little pokeys.
Sometime, if only one loose in the pants like this, you can feel that thing. Oh, you can feel ’em, eh? That plant.
5.30.5.7 samtaim KNOW-Clause There are several canonical examples of samtaim in combination with KNOW:
AK:656 I use. Remember sometime I forget. Sometime I know what moon come in, sometime I
forget all about it. Really hard, though. ER:757 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:824 The chief cowboy tell me, “Every time this guys, they talk ghost kind story, you no believe them. No believe what they tell. If you believe, you catch ’em.” Sometime the guys believe, that’s why
they catch ’em. No believe what they say. That’s why, every time when I go, sometime I no like believe. Sometime I know this the place, this the place they talking about, ah, I gotta forget about it. Just go.
ER:863 That’s why now I no believe now days in any kind. He tell me you only believe you get only one God, the Father and the Son. That’s what he tell. That’s why, me, anybody tell any kind, eh, I
no listen. I no like believe them guy what they talk. Because I know my friend he wen tell me the god idol. Just like idol, eh. Everybody get any kind. Sometime you don’t know. Stay inside your house, they
keep da kine, eh, stay inside. So, the house going get spook because he keep. He keep and then go on the children, on the children’s children. He said, no believe. You believe, then going be strong in you
because the thing can work because you believe. That’s why, me, I no believe anything. I only believe one Father and the Son. You pray, you pray to the Son. If the Son he okay, he go to the Father. Then the
Father the one take care. That’s what he tell me.
5.30.6 Summary
