Evident: evidential
| Values: | Att | Fh | Nfh |
Evidential
Att: Attested
It is used to signal that an event has been attested
Examples
- Ukwaw kakwez zeʔengete imungetahaw aʔe wə kurɨ “They know (attested in the distant past) how to read Guajajara”
Fh: First Hand
It is used to signal that an event has been witnessed by the utterer of the sentence
Examples
- Ukwaw kakwez zeʔengete imungetahaw aʔe wə kurɨ “They know (attested in the distant past) how to read Guajajara”
Nfh: Non-firsthand
It is used to signal that the utterer of the sentence has not witnessed the event, but heard from it.
Examples
- Mukuz awa wà uzemeʔkar zekaipo oho aʔe wà “(For a long time, it is said), two men (met and) went to hunt together”
Diffs
Prague Dependency Treebank
The PDT tagset does not distinguish Ptan from Plur and Coll from Sing,
therefore this distinction is not being made in the converted data.
Evident in other languages: [ab] [bor] [dar] [gub] [jaa] [ka] [ky] [tr] [u]