289 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.
In the above examples, it is not clear to me, whether daet is an exponent of THIS. At worst, it is a semantic molecule containing THIS.
There is also an interesting example of a similar syntactic frame: NC:172 Because those days, they get some strong fellow, they carry the taro, two bunch taro. They
carry it, they lift, put on top the arm over here and then throw on top. Then he get one fellow by the name of Tom Kua. He’s a big Hawaiian guy. He just swing ’em like that, he put ’em on top, without
putting on top here. So those boys know I am strong, but they don’t know if I get heart or not, so he kidded me, he “I like see the rice farmer do like what Tom Kua did.” I said, “Well, how did he do?” He
said, “You know, he lift the taro, he just go like this. He put ’em on top here.” I said, “Don’t put on top here ?” He said, “No.” You know, most of them, they swing, they put them on top here, then from here
they swing them on top. I said, “No, I cannot.”
5.38.4 Examples of jaslaik
5.38.4.1 I AM jaslaik X FD:277 Yeah, his father. My grandma married the father. So just like I’m a big sister to them. So that’s
why when she died, she had a property. The property was made on me. But I didn’t want to fight for property. So that’s why, Samuel get one other brother in Honolulu, eh? That’s Dukie’s daddy. Dukie
Mock Chew. They are taro farmer too. So his daddy, I told him to go find out for the property. If I wanted to, if I was greedy, I would have all the property. So I just tell them go look before somebody get
in, and they can claim. If you don’t keep up with the tax, somebody else can have the place. Because that place belongs to me. But I didn’t want to make trouble, so I’m just like their big sister because my
grandma married to their daddy.
NC:161 They told me, “You don’t have to pay what tidal wave takes away. Because that’s Act of
God. That’s not your fault.” I said, “Gee, how would I feel if one of them hangs himself? I’ll be just like a murderer.” I told them. They said, “No, it’s not your fault.” I said, “I know it’s not, but it’s easier for
me to pay them than keep me worried.” So I paid.
5.38.4.2 SOMEONE IS jaslaik X
WK:695 Uh huh. Take care the irrigation. He was just like the boss like.
YA:1049 Bumbai, I work for I don’t know how long. Maybe couple years, see. Then, another quarterman come around. The quarterman taking charge. The quarterman is higher than the leaderman.
Leaderman is just like straw boss, eh? So, the quarterman say, “Can you do this machine work?” I say, “Yeah, I can.” They put me one job. He write one slip, see. Tell me go down the storeroom, get the
materials. Then he say, “Here you stay. This machine, you going work.” And I said, “I don’t know how to run the machine.” They show me how to handle the machine. So, after that, I put the job on, I make the
job come good.
5.38.4.3 SOMETHING IS jaslaik X There are two canonical examples of SOMETHING as subject to jaslaik:
AK:666 No, no. That time, never damage nothing. That thing was just like that. Whoever like go
in, they go in. They no care. But, only the old people said, “Whatever you do, whenever you go inside, you better not touch around and take anything from there.”
290 FD:272 I think you know this crawling vine. Waipio get. The crawling vine–by my place, they have
on the taro patch. That thing just like rope. The kids used to use that for jumping rope, before. But they had one more other one, it’s the white one. The leaf is not too green, it’s kind of light color. And that
thing has white flower, just like the morning glory, eh? I think they pick four or five flowers, you know the dry ones, the ones already closed and the ones open, and the leaves, dry and the green one.
There are three near-canonical examples of SOMETHING as subject to jaslaik: EB:1140 Then, we come. We ride the Humuula. I don’t know if you remember the Humuula. No
more Humuula. The steamer, the Humuula. The old one. The old Humuula. From Honolulu to Kona. Yeah. Kailua. So, boy, that time. Funny thing is, when I come from the Philippine, come to Honolulu, I
no feel dizzy. But from Honolulu to Kona, oh, just like the house spinning around. Two days, boy. Yeah, funny thing. Hoo, the house just like the propeller of the airplane. Yeah, when I see ’em, look. Oh, I
close my eye when I lay down.
YA:1024 Just boil ’em. Take the skin out and eat like that. Just how you eat potato. The taro is just like one potato. You take the skin out and eat ’em like that. When I went to school, I don’t know
how old I was already. I know my schoolteachers, Mrs. March, that’s the one that she own all the place. I don’t know if she owned it or was the government or what. She owned a big one schoolhouse.
YA:1026 Regular, house. They build. Only they can build da kine house is like this, see? You
know? 5.38.4.4 X IS jaslaik SOMEONE
There is one canonical example of jaslaik with SOMEONE as object. YA:1022 I don’t think about they no believe me, but when they heard, they say that to me. One
man tell me–one fella that I told him, I don’t know, when I was kinda old man already. Forty, fifty years old already. He tell me, “You sure you saw a menehune?” “Yeah.” I say yeah, you know. Then, they say
it’s all menehune, they never see. But no, they see Indian only, you know. So, bumbai, they tell me menehune is a small, little man, see? They just like a person, but they small, little man, you know. Just
like some kind of a people that you cannot see, eh? But so small, eh?
There are several near-canonical examples of jaslaik relating SOMEONE. FD:247 Then he moved to Hilo. We were all together. We were just like family, when they. had
their poi shop. And then my brother used to work for them. He worked all over the place, my brother. So that’s how we get to know everybody. So I told the boy, “Yeah, you better be good boy, help your father.
Your father say, you a spoiled boy.” He doesn’t care to work. FD:277 Yeah, his father. My grandma married the father. So just like I’m a big sister to them. So
that’s why when she died, she had a property. The property was made on me. But I didn’t want to fight for property. So that’s why, Samuel get one other brother in Honolulu, eh? That’s Dukie’s daddy. Dukie
Mock Chew. They are taro farmer too. So his daddy, I told him to go find out for the property. If I wanted to, if I was greedy, I would have all the property. So I just tell them go look before somebody get
in, and they can claim. If you don’t keep up with the tax, somebody else can have the place. Because that place belongs to me. But I didn’t want to make trouble, so I’m just like their big sister because my
grandma married to their daddy.
GF:305 Yeah, he tells me what to do. He tells me what he wants me to do. He’s the boss. He tells
everybody what to do. Those days, the old man doesn’t work. He’s the boss. All the Chinese just like kings down there.
NC:161 They told me, “You don’t have to pay what tidal wave takes away. Because that’s Act of
God. That’s not your fault.” I said, “Gee, how would I feel if one of them hangs himself? I’ll be just like a murderer.” I told them. They said, “No, it’s not your fault.” I said, “I know it’s not, but it’s easier for
me to pay them than keep me worried.” So I paid.
WK:695 Uh huh. Take care the irrigation. He was just like the boss like.
291 YA:1049 Bumbai, I work for I don’t know how long. Maybe couple years, see. Then, another quar-
terman come around. The quarterman taking charge. The quarterman is higher than the leaderman. Leaderman is just like straw boss, eh? So, the quarterman say, “Can you do this machine work?” I say,
“Yeah, I can.” They put me one job. He write one slip, see. Tell me go down the storeroom, get the materials. Then he say, “Here you stay. This machine, you going work.” And I said, “I don’t know how to
run the machine.” They show me how to handle the machine. So, after that, I put the job on, I make the job come good.
5.38.4.5 X IS jaslaik YOU There are several canonical examples of jaslaik with YOU as object:
FD:269 That’s why all my children today. They look at me. I going be 67 on the 24th of this month. They all look and cry at me. “Mom, you so strong. To look at you, Mom, I wonder if we going be
just like you. Of your age and we can still, you know. With all the children, you had all of us.” And they all started to cry. And then my oldest one she said, “Aren’t you folks all happen to see our mom, she’s
stronger than us?” And they all started to cry. Even the one from Hilo. He started to grab me, you know.
5.38.4.6 X IS jaslaik SOMETHING There is a near-canonical example of jaslaik with SOMETHING as object:
EB:1140 Then, we come. We ride the Humuula. I don’t know if you remember the Humuula. No more Humuula. The steamer, the Humuula. The old one. The old Humuula. From Honolulu to Kona.
Yeah. Kailua. So, boy, that time. Funny thing is, when I come from the Philippine, come to Honolulu, I no feel dizzy. But from Honolulu to Kona, oh, just like the house spinning around. Two days, boy.
Yeah, funny thing. Hoo, the house just like the propeller of the airplane. Yeah, when I see ’em, look. Oh, I close my eye when I lay down.
FD:272 I think you know this crawling vine. Waipio get. The crawling vine–by my place, they have
on the taro patch. That thing just like rope. The kids used to use that for jumping rope, before. But they had one more other one, it’s the white one. The leaf is not too green, it’s kind of light color. And that
thing has white flower, just like the morning glory, eh? I think they pick four or five flowers, you know the dry ones, the ones already closed and the ones open, and the leaves, dry and the green one.
FD:273 Just like the piston of the anthurium, that plant. It’s just like a cabbage. I think, on my taro patch bank, I usually have. But now I don’t know if Araki’s have. That thing grow flat, just like
cabbage leaf. I think she remember seeing. I don’t know, my backyard used to have.
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.
GF:337 Oh, near the taro patch banks. You know, when you get dirt that’s damp, the ground is
damp. Always damp. The dirt is just like clay. But if you have dirt covered with water, it turn to mud.
TA:43 Every weekend I come down. That’s when I bought one old military jeep. Because the Army was stationed down here too. Had some military guys, they was watching the beach. So the Army wen
bulldozer and try level up the road. Before that, you know the trail going up, is just like one step ladder. That’s where the mules step every time, the same holes. And then the road was real narrow,
those days. Now is kind of wide, they fixed it. That’s when they come down with their jeeps too. Since the War, when the car was going up and down.
YA:1024 Just boil ’em. Take the skin out and eat like that. Just how you eat potato. The taro is just like one potato. You take the skin out and eat ’em like that. When I went to school, I don’t know
how old I was already. I know my schoolteachers, Mrs. March, that’s the one that she own all the place. I don’t know if she owned it or was the government or what. She owned a big one schoolhouse.
292 5.38.4.7 X IS jaslaik THIS
There are two clear examples of jaslaik with THIS as object:
AK:666 No, no. That time, never damage nothing. That thing was just like that. Whoever like go
in, they go in. They no care. But, only the old people said, “Whatever you do, whenever you go inside, you better not touch around and take anything from there.”
YA:1026 Regular, house. They build. Only they can build da kine house is like this, see? You
know? 5.38.4.8 Clause jaslaik Clause
There are several good canonical examples of jaslaik relating two clauses:
ER:777 Yeah, I think me more old than him. But that time, Lana‘i, he was working first, just like
him more old than me, eh, what, they seniority. ER:842 By hand, yeah. By hand and they cook the tar, put tar on top when they was making the
road. And so those Japanese, they work hard. They smart how they work the road. You know, they cut the stone only with the hammer and small little stuff. When you look, easy, they make ’em straight,
yeah, all the stone. Just like carpenter. They know the grain of the lumber, how the way lumber run, just like they know the stone, how the grain run.
ER:859 He tell me, “The people talk, you no believe. You believe what you think you make.” He
tell me, “No believe what people talk. When they talk any kind, they make you just like you no more fight on your net.” He tell me, “No believe.” Bumbai I tell ’em, “You guys all bullshit.” “I no believe you
guys.” Just like bumbai my net all come junk. Then bumbai I make one more net, I make one more net. I go throw fish, I catch, catch fish. Yeah, you know, catch, catch fish with my net. Them guys tell me, “Eh,
your net good luck.” “No, you guys tell me my net manini. You guys, I no believe this kind. ...”
ER:877 That company. But good though, the boss, that luna, I wen work for him two night. but he
look the way I work, just like I know all this kind job, like rope kind job, eh, little more same cowboy kind job, eh, any kind thing, I hook up. He look me from on top, just like I know what I doing, what I
work, I know. FD:267 Really, that thing is big too, afterbirth, you know. You should know. Big but you don’t see
when even when you get your baby in the hospital. That thing is big after the birth. Then after that we did everything. Well, that time we didn’t have bathroom upstairs. So my mom had to, you know she has
all that lau hala mats in the house. So she put me on the side of the bed. Near to the bed side. And then she tell me for get a tub of hot water. And then she make me take a bath upstairs. And then, after that I
get all myself. Just like didn’t have no baby. And here me, walking all around. She said, “No, you don’t do all that.” I said, “Why? I’m all right.” She said, “No. After you get your baby, you come dizzy, eh?”
“No, I’m okay.” I had all my babies like that. I do ’em by myself, me and my mom. And nothing happened.
GF:345 And I had some hippies with me, on the truck. I drop over the hardware store, bought some material. I told those boys load it up. Kelly came there. “Say, you crazy or what? Why you hire this kind
lahui?” Lahui mean nationality. “Why? You want to work for me? You come work for me. If you can work for me, I won’t hire them.” That shut his mouth. When they look at me, when they pass me by,
they don’t even look at me. They angry. So I hired them. I tried them. I teach them. Just like they were my own son, I teach them everything.
YA:1027 She says, “This morning we going tell you the story about before, about Abraham Lincoln was president.” She says, “You know, Abraham Lincoln was the president. He rode his horse on top the
horseback, go up the mountainside, look where people working. But those days, the white man no can hire somebody work. They no go tell somebody, ‘You come work for me. I pay you so much one month,
like that.’ ‘They buy the slave. They buy the slave just like you buy one horse, see? You put ’em in the
293 house, you feed with the rice, the slave got to work for you for your lifetime. And no more pay, and
nothing. Only just work, and work for you. That’s why, they called ‘slaves.’”
5.38.5 Summary
