202 X IS GOOD FOR SOMEONE X IS GOOD
FOR PEOPLE YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON SOMEONE IS A GOOD PERSON
Currently we are missing only a single valence: PEOPLE ARE GOOD
5.26 BAD 5.26.1 Primitive Syntax
The universal syntax of BAD is as follows: BAD PERSONPEOPLETHING
IYOUPEOPLEd1PERSONd1THINGTHIS IS BAD FOR MEYOUPEOPLEd1PERSON
We will also include in this survey the following proposed alternate frame: IYOUd1PERSON AMAREIS SOMEONE BAD
5.26.2 HCE Candidates
Baed is the only plausible candidate for NSM BAD.
5.26.3 HCE Examples
There are much fewer examples roughly 100 of baed than gud in our corpus.
5.26.4 Examples of baed
5.26.4.1 baed PERSON We have several good near-canonical examples of baed combining attributively with PERSON:
FD:295 This is almost lunch hour, they call me back. “She’s in school today and they question her where she was Friday. Because we call home, Grandma say you came to school, but you wasn’t present
that day.” Because I called. She was a bad girl that day. Well, she admit she was wrong, that she listened to her friends.
KK:118 She no, but she say, “Oh-ah, I quit, I quit, you bad girl, my alla.” WK:707 Uh, all good boys, yeah? All good boys. No trouble. Those days, no such thing as
bad kind boys. No more marijuana. No such thing as get marijuana. Today, ho, the kids. YA:1027 ’Cause, you know, we sometime good friend, sometime bad friend. You know, make
trouble, you go fight, eh? They fight me, I fight you, eh? You know, get fighting. That’s how the people go in the ages.
Again, presumably grl, fren, and boi are decomposable into SOMEONE.
203 5.26.4.2 baed THING
There are a handful of near-canonical examples of baed combining attributively with SOMETHING. Unfortunately, the example expressions combining with baed are fairly complex semantically. I assume
that all of these are decomposable in terms of SOMETHING, but this is not transparently clear. Again, nevertheless, I offer these examples for your consideration:
ER:862 Yeah. He wen talk but Uncle Lew wen hear, eh. Uncle Lew tell me, “You asked for the bag.
He said bad luck already because when you going carry the bag, just like get the fish in the bag already.” I said, “Ah, I no believe da kine.” I tell, “We go, take ’em you net, go try throw.” But him, he
tell because I like carry bag, that’s mean bad luck already. But when Uncle Lew wen one time throw, get about over twenty moi. I tell Uncle Lew after we go pick up the fish come out, “See, if we no bring bag,
how we going hold the fish go home?” The guy over there no talk nothing. Tell, “Lucky I bring the bag. Look now, put the bag and carry the fish. If no more bag, how we going carry the fish.”
ER:863 No. That’s why, the old man he tell me, “I hear the one you was telling me, eh.” They said,
weke, you no can eat the head. You get bad dream or you go someplace.
ER:889 Then he tell me, “No, you come back tomorrow.” “No, I pau. You get some more driver. I no like.” From that, I no work. Bumbai he catch me on the road he tell, “You no can help us again, go
drive?” “No, I pau. You guys give me bad deal. You guys not honest. Give me bad deal. Tell me only drive, but.”
MM:365 Yeah. You know, when bad field, when pali field like that, the cane car, sometime he run
away, yo. They no can control, so the thing go full speed, eh? Yeah, huli, you know. NC:164 Then he says, “I know he’s an honest man just by talking to him.” He said he could not
give me the answer now. He says, “You wait. I go back Honolulu and then I’ll give you my answer.” So the next day, when he went back, he tell that wahine on Maui, because the Maui wahine was giving him
all the bad taro, the watery kind and giving the good ones to Waiahole Poi. So when they stopped there they asked the lady, “Is that taro going to my poi factory?” She said, “No, this is for Waiahole.” He said,
“How come you give Waiahole all good taro and you give me the junk taro?” She said, “Cannot help because that’s my poi shop all the time. I have to give him the best I get. If you want, you take, if you
don’t want you don’t have to take.”
5.26.4.3 SOMEONE IS baed There is a single near-canonical example of baed combining predicatively with SOMEONE, assuming that
dey is decomposable in terms of SOMEONE:
AK:605 No, just about the same. They are not bad, about the same.
5.26.4.4 SOMETHING IS baed We have a number of near-canonical examples of baed combining predicatively with SOMETHING.
Unfortunately, the words which combine with baed are fairly complex semantically. Therefore, the examples offered are not transparent at all. Nevertheless, I offer the following examples for your con-
sideration:
AK:603 Something like Chinese food. Most time Chinese food. They have all kind food. Everybody eat the same food. Only Sunday, sometime, we get little bit more different food than the old Chinese. But
not bad.
MM:374 Well, all depend if half dry or really dry, or if a bad field where you got to make backfire or what. But if you don’t have to make backfire, we tell ’em, “Hit ’em with the wind,” yo. “Hit ’em with
the wind” is, you just burn ’em with the wind. That thing go. No more half an hour, that thing pau. But if the next field is bad, we got to make backfire, takes you long time. All depend how long that backfire
is. Because you got to go real slow, you know. Especially when dry, that spark all time flying, eh?
204 MT:1183 Not to go let this taro rot. Was a situation, was unreal. I don’t know. But I’m not going all
full 100 percent fertilization. Only on certain patches where the rot is really bad. That’s what I’m using.
OC:10 I think I was looking for something the other day. Let’s see, where’s that thing. We have a
letter here. The Hawaiian Trust is very, very nice to me, 1959 when business was very bad and here’s what my son wrote to the Hawaiian Trust to do a favor.
SU:1568 Yeah. I think it’s worth it, though. It’s worth it. If I never get my eyesight bad, I still
think still running it.
WK:707 Their temperament is bad, you know, their temper. They get quick mad, they quick.
Hoo, short temper. They quick mad. I know, I take notice Waipio one time had one big, the guy take out the knife like that.
WK:720 Ho, they get spoil quick. And the amount per acre was really low. Bags, amount of bags,
really low. The red taro was bad. Losing money.
YA:1035 They get a trail. Horse trail, see. You can get a horse wagon with four wheels, but the horse pull only. No more road, you know. All muddy roads. When rainy weather, the wheel go way
down by the mud. No can go, eh? And then, no more stone wall, you know. On the side of the trail is a redwood post and barbed wire. Three barbed wires. But the horse buggy not so bad. If you drive
automobile, you mistake, you go down. Boom, you go way down the bottom. No more hope. After they widen the road, then get car go, eh? That’s why they put stone wall on. Before, no more wall, you know.
Only barbed wire.
5.26.4.5 PEOPLE ARE baed There is a canonical example of baed combining attributively with PEOPLE:
MM:339 Yeah On the road to Waita. They get a ditch coming down, eh? Lot of fellas, they used to make their pigpen alongside the ditch, you know. And from the camp, they used to carry their can and
go feed the pigs, those days. And then, those days, the people wasn’t so bad, eh? But if you go do that today, you won’t find the pig the next day.
5.26.4.6 THIS IS baed In the frame, baed refers anaphorically to a clause in discourse. In the following examples, there is no
overt dis accompanying baed, nevertheless it is clear that the phrase has the meaning as the NSM canonical sentence THIS IS BAD:
AK:626 Hele mai ai: come and eat. We tell him, “ke la,” that’s his fish, see. Then he tell us, “Nui
loa kolohe, do.” That mean because we always fool around like that. Bad go do that.
There are near-canonical examples of this valence usinging the phraseme daez nat so baed: AK:602 Sing on the way? Oh yeah, we sing along the way, talk story, sometime we sleep on the
animal. Slow, eh, you go on there, you sleep. That’s why, when you get in the forest, you have to watch the animals. The animals going eat grass, sometime you miss some animals. Sometimes we miss, we had
to go back and look for it. Most time, not bad. Before we get out, it has a gate there, all the animals going stay right at the gate. So you count ’em; if we took 14 or 16 animals, all the 16 there, well okay.
But if one missing, you have to go look for it.
ER:849 We get pay for the eight hour. Because he no like pay overtime, eh. Then bumbai we get
overtime, then not so bad. But he was still going like that.
ER:881 Uncle Johnny. He wen drive truck. Uncle Biggy them wen go drive da kine small kind truck inside the pineapple field. I think Robert he was down the piggery running the boiler. So, he know how
to run boiler, they put him inside the powerhouse ’cause he know how to run all da kine steam, eh, the engine, da kine, about the steam, eh. So he went powerhouse. Yeah, plenty guys wen go, but not so bad.
But Uncle Sammy - no, when that time pau, he was in the army. When he came back from the army, then he went truck driver. He wen go apply for truck, eh.
205 ER:898 That’s why sometime you take ladies like that, slow, you gotta go. No can go too fast. But if
men, all right, they like go quick, eh, catch the boat go. But lady–one time I take one lady, schoolteacher or nurse. She gotta go Maui. Oh, she don’t know how to ride horse, go slow. Then reach by the beach,
not so bad, yeah. And me that time, I go take da kine guys, I scared. You like, bright, come home already, eh. You no like go dark, dark already coming home. That’s why not one time I come home dark,
at least the sun stay up. And when I go, I take two horse.
GF:307 Everybody know my life history, that’s bad. GF:307 Oh, that’s bad.
MM:354 So when he go take the car, he shift ’em behind, yo. No let ’em come in front because he
going hold up the line. He tell ’em, “Ey, you go take behind.” When he go take behind one, not so bad, because he stay way behind, eh? Because lot of time, you get single guy, because maybe his partner lay
off. And then, if my piler boy, and if Burt lay off, his piler boy get no more partner, see. So, I can take his piler boy. Then, it going to even up, eh? But sometime no come out like that. Sometime you get no more
piler boy and only the hapai ko man get. So da kine time, he no more partner, so he let ’em go behind. Otherwise, he going hold up the line, eh?
MM:359 Yeah. And if all level like this, no so bad. But sometimes, you got to go up the hill like
this, you know. MM:370 Carry ’em up and load ’em, eh? And then, they get one fella for take off the thing. And if
the machine come quick by your place, all right, not so bad. After he unload, well, you get. You get some more there. But if not, you got to go get some more. Otherwise, you going to be waiting, eh?
NK:957 Yeah, sublease. Maybe if I lease 20 years from Bishop, I can lease 15 years to the other people, eh? Then, when pau them, and then come back, that’s mine. Till pau and I lease over again.
That’s how, those days before, they can do that, you know. That’s why, Hawaiians was lucky, not bad. Ma uka taro patch, we pay only four dollars an acre.
TA:54 The job, the work. You just got to work in the water and all that. If you work on dry land,
not so bad. When it’s raining, you pulling taro, oh my. What a miserable life, eh. Get water underneath, water on top. Even kids, they graduate high school, they get little brains, you think they want to go in
the taro patch? They rather work in the office or something.
WK:722 Two dollars a bag for digging. That’s not bad. There are also near-canonical examples of this valence usinging the phraseme nat tu baed:
AK:629 He have, but that kind of really be taboo-like for go and get the medicine. Sometime, if you don’t need the medicine, you see that medicine. And when you need that medicine, you going find high
and low, you no can find. I don’t know why, but they always be like that. Hawaiian herbs are very delicate, I don’t say I know plenty, but I know some, but too bad, I didn’t have the book. If I had the
book, I would study lot more of those things. Now they having, sometimes, University of Hawaii, or someboy come out with ’em. You know one, Kanakaole, or somebody else.
AK:666 Yeah, I did visit that. But the entrance, to get inside, you have to crawl to get inside. And then, when you get inside, then you can stand up. You walk quite a ways inside. When I went in there, I
had see a canoe was in there. I saw a canoe. I never like go more in. Kind of get scared. I never did touch nothing. I just look and I come out. Nice place. Good place. Too bad they never see it. Tidal wave had
damage the place too. Otherwise, they might have keep the place good, and all that. Now, it’s all covered up.
AK:667 Everybody can go and visit, eh. Could see, something to look at that. Too bad. Anybody
can see. Did you ever go down to Puna side? Keau side? Did you two go over there? I tell you, this is a rock, something like a leg here. It stay in the ocean. It flaps this way in the ocean. Only small. More like
a swivel stay holding this. If you ever go, I think the only way you can go and see that, you go down to the Shipmens, at Keau. You have the permit from them. Maybe they let you how to get in there.
Fortunately I was lucky to see that. It’s a legend, you know. It’s Uha o Hopoe. It’s a leg of a woman. That’s very important to go and see. Have the legend of that. I don’t know the legend of that.
EB:1136 My brother, he was high school in the Philippine, but he was very poor. He was a graduate in the Philippine. So, he follow my father. So, my brother was working in the Waialua
206 Plantation. Stay there about couple of months, I think. That’s what my father told me. Then, he said he
going continue his school in the Mainland. But too bad, he did not. He got shot down. He make in the Mainland. And my father, after that, he bin go home. He leave me behind. He told me to go home. I say,
“No, you go first.”
FD:244 Yeah. Make ’em to poi. And fast. That was the old fashioned; too bad I didn’t have the
pictures because I had all the pictures taken before. But when my sister-in-law stayed where our house, where Roy is now; up, eh? They broke down the building and then I don’t know what happened. My
sister-in-law took all the belongings, eh; you know Polo’s mother. FD:250 I don’t know. That’s what they say. You know they trace back, back, back. So I told them,
“Maybe, because my daddy’s side. When you look the family, they not pure Hawaiian, you know, you look them.” Yeah, when you look at them, they not like pure Hawaiian. Funny, you look at them. And
their skin so fair. And you know my cousins, they look like haole too. My cousins. Too bad, I think we have only about three more, I think. Yeah, but they good looking. They used to work down Puumaile
home, but they move up now. My three cousins, they used to work nurse. They don’t look like me. They cute.
FD:250 Victor Hauanio. He come from Puna, my dad. You look my daddy, he’s not like a pure
Hawaiian. Too bad I don’t have the picture. I don’t know if my sister got the pictures. Maybe one of my sisters had the picture. Maybe some day, I’ll ask her for the pictures. Try look at my daddy. Handsome
looking man. And even my mom. He get high cheek bone and you know his complexion, is real smooth and light brown.
JB:62 And we do that and then we get Hawaiian salt -whatever salt that we could get. And then, when we have a poi, we didn’t use the poi factory, those days. We used to pound our own poi. Yeah, that
pound poi board and pound poi stone. Too bad, I don’t know what happened to the pound poi board and the pound poi stone that we had.
MT:1176 Right now, it’s only about seven acres, which, I was running about 12, 13 before. Because of the disease and stuff, I just gave up, gave up, gave up. At right now, is only about seven acres. But
actually, that’s why I say, lucky the price came up, so it doesn’t affect too much. You still have your income set, amount of income is almost the same. Even your production drop, but you still have the
income, is almost the same. Not too bad. I think it’s coming up again. It should be pretty soon.
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:1543 That’s why, when we–on the show window, big show window, put the face of the people
smiling. Yeah. Too bad I don’t have the picture of that. Yeah, I don’t know where all my pictures went to.
SU:1569 Most of them went over to them. I think still today they have guys who are going down there, but most of the old-timers already passed away, eh? “Red” McQueen, Don Watson, Andrew
Mitsukado, Shimogaki, Bobby Lee, who else? McGuire. Oh, most, I can name all those guys. And college boys, eh? Used to go down there. So, when I negotiate with stadium, I had a few shares in it, too, see.
So, no questions asked–play. Yeah, too bad. They should remodel the place. You know, buy the property on Makahiki Way side and then behind. They should buy the property, and then build the stadium down
there. That’s a good location, that place down there.
YA:1065 No, young boy only. They gang you up and rob, but they no go your house and steal, you
know. Not too bad, you know. They only gangster up on the roadside. Maybe about five, six kids together. Only young kind kids. Ten, fifteen years old kind. They gang you up. And maybe eighteen,
twenty years old. Some, maybe, couple old men, too. They all gang up. They go gang and fight on the road, that’s all. They no go in the house and steal, you know.
207 5.26.4.7 YOU ARE A baed PERSON
There is a single near-canonical example of the frame YOU ARE SOMEONE BAD, which assumes that grl is decomposable in terms of the primitive PERSON:
KK:118 She no, but she say, “Oh-ah, I quit, I quit, you bad girl, my alla.”
5.26.4.8 SOMEONE IS A baed PERSON We have one near-canonical example of the frame SOMEONE IS A BAD PERSON:
FD:295 This is almost lunch hour, they call me back. “She’s in school today and they question her where she was Friday. Because we call home, Grandma say you came to school, but you wasn’t present
that day.” Because I called. She was a bad girl that day. Well, she admit she was wrong, that she listened to her friends.
Again, presumably grl is decomposable into SOMEONE. 5.26.4.9 SOMETHING IS A baed THING
There is only one possible near-canonical example of the frame SOMETHING IS A BAD THING: MT:1192 And he’s a farmer, plus he’s getting a cut from Honolulu Poi too, to supply the taro to
him. So, he cannot go and see Ernest, “Oh, how about giving us, you know, some more, couple of cents more.” He can’t because he’s getting his cut already from him. So he’s kind of tight. So I would go direct
to Ernest and say what the situation can be. Good enough. I would advise small farmers–what I talking about small is part-time farmers who run, maybe about 150, 200 bags a year–to go with these small
shops, instead of going with these big shops. The reason is this. On a smaller shop, you can get a better price. On these bigger shops, they have a bigger volume. I don’t know. It’s a bad situation. It’s really
hard to say how to go about it.
It is highly doubtful that it and sichueishn are both decomposable into configurations containing SOMETHING.
5.26.5 Summary
