Explanation of what's going on, and preceding dialog in this scene, at: The Princess's yacht captain warns her they are going down in: JARL THON lo cacra li me'i pa .ije. SUPER: Less than an hour, and... hours-counted-as a-number less-than 1. And, ti ru'u tutra lei ri'opre SUPER: These are Green Man lands nearby surrounding territory-controlled-by those described as green-persons .i. e'u .ei ma'a carna fi le berti .ibabo ma'a sraku le dertu SUPER: We should turn North before we scrape dirt. (suggest)(obligation) we-all turn toward the north thereafter we scrape the dirt DEJAH THORIS .ie nai cai! La Eliym rursegunta .i. ki'unai SUPER: No! Helium is besieged. Even so, (rejection)(strong) Helium is-subject-of-encircling-attack. In spite of that piro La Barsum se ckape .ije. La Eliym ba terskicu SUPER: All Barsoom is in peril and Helium will be told All Barsoom is-imperiled and-logically Helium will be-told .i. ai sirvoi ca [lo?] li'i ma'a kakne .ijebabo ai cadzu SUPER: Fly straight while we can, then walk (intent) straight-fly during experience-of we are-able; and-then (intent) walk I would like to say Helium MUST be told -- but I don't see how to tersely say that. The line is already too long for emphatic speech or for the actor's comfort. I'm still confused about the syntactic roles of selma'o PU. It appears from some examples in the ref.gram. that [bridi] ca [abstraction] is how to say this-while-that, so "fly straight while we can" is just {sirji vofli ca [lo?] li'i ma'a kakne}. True? Also confused about NU such as li'i -- when is it needful to have a LE before a NU? |