HCE Candidates Examples of wen

230 Examples in this frame therefore count as near-canonical examples.

5.30.2 HCE Candidates

In HCE, the three primary lexical exponents of the NSM primitive WHEN: wen, taim, and samtaim.

5.30.3 Examples of wen

5.30.3.1 wen SAY-Clause There are a substantial number of near-canonical examples showing wen linking with a clause headed by the primitive SAY: 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. BB:009 Yea, he do all the kin’. 1937 I think, him and my mother went Japan. Everytime they stay send the money to the brother to buy property. Buy mountain like that. My father like plenty mountain with plenty trees. He can cut the kaki no ki, kuri no ki and all the good kin’ lumber, eh. He make into shoji like that – nice kin’, eh. He buy the kin’ and plenty the kin’ rice patch. ’A’s why he wanted to go take a look how many land he get with the money. So when they wen reach Japan, Japan guys say, “How come you folks came back?” “We came to see our property.” “What property?” “ We send money to the brother for go buy the yama and the rice patch.” He say, “ You no mo’ money. Your brother get PLENTY land. They don’ know how the brother wen make money for he can buy all the kin’ land.” “So you folks was sending the money?” “Yea. So he brought the property.” My father wen go to the brother’s house; first thing he went to the altar, you know, for go pray. And the brother wen pass behind him. Hoo. I hear they had a big fight – the two brothers. BB:013 ’A’s why go get box from the plantation store or something and pack ’em up inside there – raincoat, working shoes, and working clothes, holo holo shoes and the clothes holo holo kin’ eh, bring that down. So, I brought that down. When I went over there, he tell me, “OK.” Komeya Hotel, Hiroshima ken, eh - we went. And then he say, “From here you go to the Consul, Nuuanu, go straight up and go by Kuakini; they got a big mon aru ke; you can see and go expatriate.” I said, “Why?” He said you dual citizen and he said Japan is gonna get war. Train after train everyday soldiers goin’ up to Manchuria. BB:019 Yea, just before WWII, because my father knew already. ’A’s why when he came back already; ’at’s what my father said come down quick, expatriate. As soon as I wen expatriate, I called my brother down to expatriate. BB:020 When Japan like that, he told me, “Come down already.” His intention was to go back and bring the family back over here. ’A’s why he goin’ quit making coffin like that – quit. BB:026 Yeh. He died at the hospital. He had diabetes. I told my brother to go home eat, so we go take chance watch him. When he came back he told me, eh, now you go home you go eat. I go watch him. They came to take blood from my father. Soon as she— the kin’ take the blood, my father all white. He died right there. EB:1135 Yeah. And, you know, those days, when harvesting the rice, you know small kids, eh? My father tell me, “We go cut rice.” Magani, eh? Say, “Okay.” ER:772 So, I walk on. Bumbai I walk up there, my aunty see me, ’cause my aunty she know me. When my aunty tell to the husband, she tell, “The boy look like Ernest, yeah, coming up.” My uncle tell, “Nah, that’s not him. He no stay Lana‘i.” “But look like that’s him. He coming.” Bumbai, I see, I come near the house. I laugh, I make my hand like that. 231 ER:773 Any kind grass. Before over there all dirt, eh. Any kind grass that get seed, we cut ’em, we load up the Ford truck. Then after that, when we get ’nough load, then he say we go. So us three young boys, we stay behind. While he driving the truck all by the dirty place we throw all the seed. You know, what we wen cut, we throw all the seed. Any kind place we go where get grass seed, we stop, and go cut. Cut and throw all by the dirt place. ER:777 Well, when I small, I like ride horse. When they been telling me go over here, go plant grass over here, go up the mountain, and when my cousin tell me, “You gotta go ride horse today,” ho, I no tell no. I like ride horse. Tell me... ER:894 I don’t know. Before when I come over here, the Hulopo‘e, they only tell Cut Mountain. FD:285 Yeah, especially when you dry the patch for two days; you know, kind of sticky, eh, already, kind of stuck, eh, the mud. And then you can just easily move. We argue sometime, but I no like, you know. I just let him do what he want to do and at times, when he find something wrong, then I tell, “That’s why I tell you every time that.” I had experience with my parents. My dad used to do that. If the soil is, it floats sometime. You can feel when you get in the patch. That thing is so soft, just like the soil is not rich enough to plant the taro. MY:1477 Oh, yeah. Because down there already, when I was in Japan already, my friend was telling me, “You cannot talk stink about the tenno heika.” He said, “The tenno heika, you gotta stay down, the law.” So, we talking English. The cab driver no can understand English. So we talking stink, any kind. “Oh, no worry about that guy.” If the driver know, boy, he take us to the.... NC:165 Then he say, “One thing I wanted to make sure. If you deal with me, I don’t want you to sell any taro to any Honolulu factories, because it is our competition.” I say, “Okay. Who else going to take? won’t take.” And he said, “[name delete] will ask you, if he runs short.” I said, “No, I don’t think so.” So, when I came back, about a month after that, he called up one morning and tell me, “Nelson, how much more more taro you get?” I said, “Oh, I get quite a bit. About 700 bags up Olepau’s place and I get about 2,000 bags down side.” He said, “You keep all that for me.” I said, “You sure you can use them all?” He said, “Yeah. And don’t sell to any Honolulu poi factories. You can sell to Hilo, but don’t sell to Honolulu.” SU:1542 Zippy’s? Right there used to have Tanaka Appliance. Mr. Tanaka and I used to be good friends, see. 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.” SU:1568 Yeah, because I used to get all the sports guys, eh? And then, when Columbia Inn opened next to Advertiser, I told Toshi –of course, he passed away already–I tell, “Go ahead and do it, that.” So he followed me and he get all the sports guys down there, see. 5.30.3.2 wen DO-Clause There are a significant number of near-examples of wen in combination with the NSM primitive DO: AK:614 It was before I got there. When I got there, they didn’t do that any more. I learned little bit of the Hawaiian dance when I was in Kona. I did go in the class, we went up dance. AK:615 We just simply organized this thing. You see, we organized the club for something that we need to do in Waipio. Might be, we need to divert the water someplace, or something like that. And then we can hold a meeting, then we can get somebody to, say, go to the Board of Water Supply and give our opinion. 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. AK:663 Yeah. When I was working for Akioka, we did too. The Parker Ranch order plenty. We do that. AK:671 For blessing. Like, Hawaiians today, I don’t see they do that. Hawaiians, if you have little bit trouble, something is in your home here, or something happened. They come back, you get a glass of 232 water. They put little Hawaiian salt. They say word of prayer. Then you sprinkle in the house, every room. Then the rest, you throw on the top the house. That clears out all the devils, or something like that. Hawaiians used to do that. And then, whatever funeral you go, then when you come back, they do that to you too. Take away all the bad. Cleaned away all the stuff. Majority of old Hawaiians do that. But today, they don’t do that. 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. MM:372 Uneven, yeah. So we tell ’em, “You fellas, try push good. Try push all.” But when you tell them, they go do that for little while, and then they go back again. So, you burn up with that one. YA:1046 That’s how he build the dike, see? Before, in the river, you can build your own dike, but not now. Before, we used to build the dike in the riverside. We no need go catch fish. The dike like this, high, eh? We live one place where the water come over, you know, on the top. We put one big bamboo basket outside the other side, the waterfall. Nighttime, we tie the basket against the rock. And right on the waterfall — down below get big stones hold up the basket, and the water come, shoot down, and go through the basket. The water no can stay, eh? So, after that, maybe about one or two o’clock in the nighttime, you go over there, collect. Ho, all da kine river mullet. Da kine all go over and stay inside the basket. You no need go catch, you know. They trap, eh? And when you build the dike, you do that, see. YA:1057 He asked me, “You like sell this lot to me, I build one house for my boy. My boy going get married.” At that time, he was only about sixteen, seventeen years old. I was so kind, you know. I said, “All right. I sell ’em to you.” I sell ’em to him with the net price was only 750. I buy ’em 500, I get one house. I sell the other one for 750, I think I making little bit money already. So, if I never sell ’em to him, I build one house for rent, oh, more good, you know. The housing in front of my eye all the time. But no, I sell ’em to him. When I sell ’em to him, what he do? He put two houses in the lot for rent. He catch me. All kind tricks, anyway. People are like that. No can help, eh? 5.30.3.3 wen HAPPEN-Clause There are a few near-canonical examples of wen combining with the NSM primitive HAPPEN: ER:755 Yeah. Happened to me. I know happened to me when I was... FD:287 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.’” FD:295 When we going pass to one new world, I don’t know what going happen to the second set of children, what they going do. To come to think nowdays, kids, they have everything just like this. That’s what happened to my granddaughter. She didn’t tell me what happened to her Friday. I call up the school, she was missed from school. To listen to what other kids say, her friends. 5.30.3.4 wen THINK-Clause There are a few near-canonical examples of wen and THINK: AK:637 You see, this is the whole tree. The whole tree is this, eh? Then this is the branch going out. When he picks his choice, whatever, he think this is good. 233 ER:815 But sometime when you come home, the small mice, eh, they make puka. They make puka, eh, but you no see. But he go inside, eh, inside the poi, stay inside the poi. So you come home, you eat the poi, you know. But when you see one lump, you think maybe you mix poi, eh, get lump. You push ’em away. Bumbai one guy, he push the thing and see the tail, “Hey, get mice in...” ER:824 Well, you young boy time, eh. Down there, every time you look, no more nobody, and people used to talk story, eh. 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. JB:69 Because he’s so rough, eh. He doesn’t respect people. When he drinks, he thinks he’s one of the bull in Waipio Valley. NC:174 Taro is a lot easier than rice. I wouldn’t go into rice again-never If I had to, I don’t, because I know I cannot take it because you had to worry so much. You worry when the heavy rain come. You worry when wind come, especially these kine winds, strong wind like day time. when the rice is ripe, when wind like this comes in, you think how much grain going to drop down. I wouldn’t grow rice again. And when heavy rain comes down, the rice all going to slip down and it’s funny, the rice come lighter. They’re not so heavy, plus hard to harvest. Instead of picking two at one time, you have to pick one at a time and plus, it is hard, too, on the back. 5.30.3.5 wen WANT-Clause There are a few near-canonical examples of wen in combination with WANT: AK:623 So he took he and I right in the police station. We never know what was his idea, so he and I stayed on the car. So, you can smell liquor, you know. But everytime we look, one police come back and go inside the station. Then he and I tell, “Eh, we stay in police station or what?” “What the hell he no come out?” Then when we get mad with him, we want to go for him, to give him licking over there. Then, afterward, here comes out one big Hawaiian policeman. Coming right up to us. He said, “Eh, what you get over there?” “Nothing.” This guy tell, “We take two go inside there.” Just like that, they fill up all the bottle, we deliver all to the police patrollers, we give all that. And it’s his idea, you know. Give the Captain, free, for nothing. ER:777 Chee, the plantation, I don’t know. I don’t know how much they make. But when they tell me work for the ranch, I like go, I like cowboy. I like ride horse, ’cause when I small, every time, I like ride horse. Every time, I get chance ride horse, I like ride horse. So that’s what I was doing. When they bring me over here, cowboy, we go plant grass. Then we go take care the mountain. We take trees every day, we go up the tree. Bumbai every day we go plant trees, my wife brother, he older than us. ER:791 Yeah, bumbai after that, they make chute. They make chute down there. Then the boat come right on the side, then from on top here, the thing go inside the chute. The guy, he slide right down, eh, because they make ’em down. No make ’em straight. Make ’em go. See, when they come inside there, they like turn back, but as soon as they go inside there, they slide down. ER:805 Maybe in the ’29 or ’28 had movie. But I know that time, when we pau hana from Munro time, us guys young then, we go down there play basketball. When we pau hana, we like pau hana early every time. We run away sometime. We go down there, we play basketball. We get team, eh. The city get team. They get about three teams. Us guys, we get cowboys for team. We go down there play. ER:842 We go with the torch, we go burn the panini, burn all the kuku. The Caterpillar knock ’em down, the cow go eat ’em. All the cow stay inside, they eat. First time, you scared, eh, because every time you go burn, the cow come behind you. He like eat. Me, I come scared because sometime plenty cow all around you, when you burn, they like go eat. I come scared. Then they make two Caterpillar, 234 they get big chain. And the two guys just go like that and knock ’em down, all the panini. They knock down, the cows go eat ’em. OC:5Then when go a little further on, she want to buy a new car. That car getting old, so that way there she wanted more money. 5.30.3.6 wen FEEL-Clause There are a few good examples of wen linking clauses with the NSM primitive FEEL as its main predicate: EB:1140 So, we come. That was June, I think, was. No more ripe, the coffee, yet. It’s still green, yet. 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:285 We argue sometime, but I no like, you know. I just let him do what he want to do and at times, when he find something wrong, then I tell, “That’s why I tell you every time that.” I had experience with my parents. My dad used to do that. If the soil is, it floats sometime. You can feel when you get in the patch. That thing is so soft, just like the soil is not rich enough to plant the taro. FD:291 He said for keep him moving, and then he don’t have to suffer. He knows that when he doesn’t work one day in the taro patch, the next day he can feel his arms just like heavy. Every day, just like every day you got to exercise. GF:348 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. I change my clothes, put on dry clothes. And about 1 o’clock we had lunch. SU:1527 And then, sometimes, I used to get lazy. I used to get sister go school together with me. I told her to go ahead and carry my kappa, and my book, and everything. Me, I go through the cane. Now, when I feel that, oh, I feel sorry, but too late already, eh? But she was a husky girl, see. 5.30.3.7 wen KNOW-Clause There are a number of examples of wen in combination with KNOW: AK:600 We put in big baskets. That way, you got to be really careful because they don’t put it in the sack then, they are really careful how they do it. The Chinese are very clever in doing it. So they teach us how to use it. That’s why, when we put on the mule, we got to know how to put the rope over that, on the pack saddle. Then later on, then we started putting the bags. AK:617 Yeah, yeah, you can see how much the water come out. If one flooded, too. Too much water going out. When the water goes down, then you know how much water to come down, how much water go that side. AK:632 I don’t know. Till now, now when somebody missing horses too, they don’t know where the horses go to. Some outsiders must be going down there and catch the horses. ER:757 Too much rascal. Every time get licking. That time I go school, I no study too much, I don’t know. Even when I come over here work, eh, I don’t know how to write too much. Only I learn from people what they talk. Then bumbai I write little bit, I read little bit. But sometime, I don’t know. I don’t know how to spell the word or what. ER:798 Then bumbai the dog know every time he gotta stay behind. They come smart. Sometime, they no bark. He just go behind, bite by the leg. When the cow jump, you know one dog wen bite ’em, because they too slow. They no bite in front or make ’em blood, only by the leg behind, yeah. 235 ER:807 All the boys, every time when anybody stand up, go, we know why they stand up. They no going come back. They going for find another seat. So we go on top, we sit down little while, we sit down by the seat, little more, all the cowboys on top the seat, sitting down. MM:375 We start fire with that ‘opala. We bunch ’em up, eh? I see lot of plantations, they get small torch, eh? We tried with a torch, too, but humbug, too, the torch. When you pau, eh, you don’t know where you going to ’em. You got to bring ’em way the hell where to put ’em away, eh? But if only with ‘opala, when you pau, you pau. You got nothing to store away. And it’s easy to get the ‘opala. NC:149 Oh, yeah. When I was six years old I know how to cook rice. And then after that little by little I learn how to common kind of dishes. Like cooking watercress and all da kine. That’s duck soup. That’s just like playing. I don’t know. Cooking is just like playing to me. OC:7 In those days, when I was fourteen years old we don’t know how to count the money and all that thing there, so.

5.30.4 Examples of taim