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8.2.1 Title
The title is given on the title page, Story about Bachelor Smelt-fish.
8.2.2 Stage Exposition—clauses 1-5
The Fish story opens with the adverbial phrase, + ‘after that’. The two sisters
are introduced with heavy coding in the subject slot and the mother occurs in an adjunct phrase postverbally. This sentence, previously example 81, is repeated here as 151.
The next three clauses describe how poor the family is, which directs empathy toward the participants 152. Jii-Mlii’s poverty at the beginning sets up a striking contrast for her
reversal of fortune at the end of the story. 151 +
+ +
+ +
K +
+ K
K K
K after that 3S TSM 2
CLF EQUAT sib.young sis.old live with
H .
mother 3S.POSS like.that ‘After that the two people who are sisters, they lived with their mother like that.’
[Fish 1-2]
152 + K
+ after that
live like.that farm fallow house old ‘After that they lived like this, with a fallow farm, in an old house.’ [Fish 3]
8.2.3 Pre-peak 1 Inciting moment—clauses 6-85
The first pre-peak episode revolves around fishing. It begins with the adverbial phrase
+ ‘after that’. In this episode, repetition describes iconically the repetitive motion of fishing with a basket. The other people are catching fish, but Jii-Mlii is only
finding stones in her fishing basket 153.
136 153
++++ K
++++ 3S TSM basket.fish have stone
basket.fish have stone ‘She Jii-Mlii fished and got stones, fished and got stones.’ [Fish 17-8]
The argument between the two sisters also entails much repetition and is stylized to create a rhythmic cadence. The literal meaning of the clauses is not accurate, otherwise
the sisters are contradicting themselves. Instead it illustrates the back and forth dynamics of their fight about what to do with the fish 154.
154 + +
+ K
+ +
K after that sib.young say grill
sis.old say NEG ‘After that the younger sister said to grill the fish; the older sister said not to.’
+ +
+ +
L sis.old say grill sib.young say
NEG ‘The older sister said to grill the fish; the younger sister said not to.’ [Fish 40-43]
Six thematic salience markers occur in this episode which add prominence to Jii- Mlii 153, the body of water where Jii-Mlii catches Smelt-fish, and the group that goes
fishing who return to the village and leave Jii-Mlii behind 155. 155
K + V0
people TSM all return leave.behind INCHO
‘All of the people left her behind and started for home.’ [Fish 31]
Usually when a large group of people go fishing, it is a far distance from the village. The fact that they leave Jii-Mlii behind to fend for herself is a significant event
and creates a greater sense of empathy for her. Twenty-two direct and indirect speech acts occur in this episode, one of which is
reporting Jii-Mlii’s internal thoughts. The seven indirect speech acts consist of the
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fighting illustrated in 154 above. Half of Jii-Mlii’s speech acts 6 out of 12 do not contain a quote formula, whereas 2 out of 7 29 of Jii-Mpoon’s speech acts do not.
8.2.4 Pre-peak 2 Developing conflict 1—clauses 86-200
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