On 5/1/2019 11:23 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
Read the Ca'Non sentence from the "Smithsonian Go Figure app":
{tera jar Soch, DIS wa Hut jav
Hut, maSDaq SaqmeH Qu' wa'DIch
HochHom turlu'taHvIS, wej logh
lengwIpu pa'mey 'oH Apollo wamaH wa' ra'ghom bobcho Columbia'e'}
"Apollo 11 Command Module, Columbia, was the living quarters for the three-person crew during most of the first manned lunar landing mission in July 1969".
The {Qu' wa'DIch} is obviously the subject of {SaqmeH}. It can't be the {Qu' wa'DIch HochHom} since the goal wasn't for "almost all of the mission to land on the moon".
And then we have the {HochHom turlu'taHvIS} which is used to express the "during most of the first manned lunar landing mission".
However, since the subject of the {SaqmeH} is only the {Qu' wa'DIch}, shouldn't there be a comma right after it ?
*maSDaq SaqmeH Qu' wa'DIch HochHom turlu'taHvIS */while most of the first moon-landing mission was being carried out/ This is a single /while/ clause. *X turlu'taHvIS* /while one does X/ The X is a noun phrase, *maSDaq SaqmeH Qu' wa'DIch HochHom* /most of the first mission-to-land-on-the-moon./ A *SaqmeH Qu'* is a /landing mission,/ a /mission for landing./ Remember that purposes clauses can be attached to nouns that are not the subject of that clause. *Qu'* is not the subject of *SaqmeH.* If that mission happens at the moon, it is a *maSDaq SaqmeH Qu'*/landing mission on the moon./ The locative is added to the verb as usual. The fact that this verb is part of a dependent clause is irrelevant. It's the first moon-landing mission, *maSDaq SaqmeH Qu' wa'DIch.* We're only talking about /most/ of the mission: *maSDaq SaqmeH Qu' wa'DIch HochHom.* -- SuStel http://trimboli.name