mɤ˧ dʑɤ˩b ɲi˩ ə˩ sɯ˥ ə˧ʝi˧-ʂɯ˥ʝi˩ ə˧mi˧ mv̩˩˥ ɲi˧-kv̩˧˥ zo˩no˥ ɬi˧di˩-di˩mi˩ qo˧ dzi˩a le˧-wo˥le˧-hɯ˩ -zo ə˧ʑi˧˥ ə˧pʰv̩˧ -ki˧ le˧ hɯ˧c -dʑo˥ ʈʂʰɯ˧ne˧-ʝi˥ ʐæ˩˥ ɳɯ˧ le˧ ʈʰæ˧˥ lɑ˧ ɳɯ˧ le˧ ʈʰæ˧˥ -ɲi˩ pi˥ -zo
NEG good COP INTERROG to_know once_upon_a_time mother daughter two-CLF.persons well Yongning_plain inside to_dwell went_back ADVB grandmother grandmother’s_brother ALL ACCOMP to_go.PST TOP thus panther A ACCOMP to_bite tiger A ACCOMP to_bite CERTITUDE to_say ADVB
[Elders would tell stories about the tiger eating people,] saying: “That is very bad, you know! Once upon a time, a mother and her daughter who lived in the Yongning plain went to see the grandmother and her brothers; and they were actually attacked by the big cats!”’ Literally: ‘they were bitten by the panther, by the tiger’ (Tiger.51)