Tanya Delčeva
Gela 2
1 (b) [0:00] Women [these days] are [so] fragile.
nom 3pl | 3pl pres cop clt | weak pl adj | now adv | woman pl f def prox |
2 (a) [0:02] Look, earlier on [people] used to eat coarse food. But people were healthier.
see sg imv P | other.time adv | eat 3pl impf I | coarse sg f adj | food sg f | but | 3pl impf cop | more | strong pl adj | people sg m def | people pl def med |
3 (b) [0:07] But now sweets and other [stuff], and there’s no old-time sturdy people
but | now adv | sweets sg m def | more | other pl adj | and | and | pres neg exist | other.time sg m adj | person sg m | sturdy sg m adj |
4 (a) [0:13] [no] healthy [ones] like then. What I lived through – when he was
and | healthy sg m adj | such sg m dist adj | disc | nom 1sg | what sg n rel | 1sg pres aux clt | undergo sg f L.part P | nom m 3sg | go 3sg pres I |
5 (a) [0:18] four years in the reserves, and I with the children – you have to stick the kid
four | year pl f | reserve sg m | and | nom 1sg | with | child pl n | comp | acc n 3sg clt | shoulder 2sg pres I | child sg n def dist |
6 (a) [0:22] on your back in a cradle in order to go out to reap.
on | back sg m def dist | with | cradle sg f | comp | go 2sg pres P | comp | reap 2sg pres P |
7 (a) [0:25] You take up a sickle, you bend down to reap, the sun is sizzling
take 2sg pres P | sickle sg m def | comp | acc refl clt | bend 2sg pres I | comp | reap 2sg pres P | sun sg n def med | heat 3sg pres I |
8 (a) [0:27] but you reap. No [other] way, you have to get started.
but | fut | reap 2sg pres P | dat refl clt | pres neg exist | how interr | must pres imprs | comp | begin 2sg pres P |
9 (a) [0:31] You did everything. You’ll take up the wooden plow and go out to plow.
everything sg n adj | acc refl clt | 3sg pres aux clt | do sg n L.part I | fut | shoulder 2sg pres P | plow sg n | fut | go 2sg pres P | comp | plow 2sg pres I |
10 (a) [0:35] But now they can’t – now [a woman] can’t carry a child
but | now adv | now adv | neg | can 3sg pres I | comp | disc | neg | can 3sg pres I | child sg n def dist | comp | acc refl clt | carry 3sg pres I |
11 (a) [0:38] on her chest, but rather gives the child to her husband to carry,
to | chest pl f | then med adv | acc n 3sg clt | give 3sg pres I | to | husband sg m def dist | comp | carry 3sg pres I | child sg n def dist |
12 (a) [0:40] my son, because she can’t carry it, she’s weak.
son sg m | because | neg | can 3sg pres I | disc | comp | acc n 3sg clt | carry 3sg pres I | disc | weak sg n adj |
13 (a) [0:43] And everything [now] is poverty, [people] go around bare and freeze.
but | everything sg n adj | from | nakedness sg f | go 3pl pres I | naked pl m | freeze 3pl pres P |
14 (a) [0:46] But then, [people] were dressed, everyone [was] dressed [sufficiently]. And there it is.
but | other.time adv | dress sg n P.part P | everything sg n adj | dress sg n P.part P | and | this sg n med adj | 3sg pres cop clt |
15 (TD) What did you use to wrap babies up with?
with | what sg n interr | acc 3pl clt | wrap 2pl impf I | baby pl n def |
16 (a) [0:59] [We used] a big woolen swaddling cloth, a big “diaper”
with | woolen sg f adj | diaper sg f | big sg f adj | and | disc | big sg f adj | diaper sg f | and |
17 (a) [1:05] woven from wool – [It was] woolen, and each one sewn up
from | wool sg f | weave sg f P.part P | woolen sg f | and | and | sew sg f P.part P | with | each sg f adj |
18 (a) [1:09] with cords, and when you wrap the child up in this woolen swaddling,
with | cord sg m | and | child sg n def dist | when inter.rel | acc n 3sg clt | wrap 2sg pres P | with | wrapping pl m | woolen pl m adj |
19 (a) [1:12] when you wrap him he sits straight because of the swaddling,
when inter.rel | acc n 3sg clt | wrap 2sg pres P | because | in | diaper pl f | and | sit 3sg pres I | straight sg n adj |
20 (a) [1:15] the belt and pants. See, it props him up, [the way it's]
what sg n rel | 3sg pres cop clt | belt sg m def | and | pants pl f def med |
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ost | acc n 3sg clt | support 3sg pres I |
21 (a) [1:17] lined by the cords like that. But [kids] now are soft. [The minute] it’s born,
with | cord pl m | line sg n P.part P | and | such sg n med adj | but | now adv | soft pl adj | 3pl pres cop clt | bear 3sg pres P | acc refl clt |
22 (a) [1:22] they put it into rugs. And that’s how children are now. Hah.
and | acc n 3sg clt | put 3pl pres P | in | rug pl m | there adv | and | child pl n def dist | dat refl clt | 3pl pres cop clt | such pl dist adj | excl |
23 (b) [1:29] Children are soft, soft, [because] of soft wrappings.
and | child pl n def dist | 3pl pres cop clt | such pl dist adj | soft pl adj | soft pl adj | diaper pl f | soft sg n adj |
24 (a) [1:37] [It’s] different in the heat – whatever you make,
other sg n adj | in | heat sg f def dist | what sg n rel dist | dat refl clt | create 2sg pres P |
25 (a) [1:41] Whatever you’ve managed and produced –
what sg n rel med | dat refl clt | 2sg pres aux clt | fix sg m L.part P | 2sg pres aux clt | produce sg n L.part P |
26 (a) [1:43] Lentils, beans, fava beans, peas, those sort of things like – and wheat.
lentils sg f | beans sg m | beans sg m | peas sg m | such pl dist adj | thing pl f | what sg n rel dist | and | wheat sg f |
27 (b) [1:50] Rye bread – dark [bread].
rye sg m adj | bread sg m | black sg m adj |
28 (a) [1:52] Dark bread, white cheese made in skin bags. When you cut off
black sg m adj | bread sg m | white.cheese sg n | in | skin.bag pl m | make sg n L.part P | but | when inter.rel | cut 2sg pres P |
29 (a) [1:56] a slice of rye bread and heat it up with this white cheese,
rye sg m adj | bread sg m | slice sg f | and | acc m 3sg clt | heat 2sg pres P | and | with | thus dist adv | white.cheese sg n |
30 (a) [1:58] it was so nice. But now not even a single tablecloth.
what.sort sg m adj | 3sg impf cop | nice sg m adj | but | now adv | pres neg exist | tablecloth pl m | pres neg exist |
31 (b) [2:02] Mm.
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32 (a) [2:03] Everything was different. There wasn’t any rice. But you’d make
everything sg n def dist adj | 3sg impf cop | more | other sg n adj | and | rice sg m | impf neg exist | but | fut | fut | dat refl clt | create 2sg pres P |
33 (a) [2:09] from wheat – there was – they used to make – they called it a handmill,
from | wheat sg f def dist | and | impf exist | and | acc n 3sg clt | make 3pl impf I | call 3pl impf I | acc n 3sg clt | gruel sg f |
34 (a) [2:13] and it works like a mill. You rotate it, and you make
acc refl clt | get.out 3pl pres P | from | mill sg f | thus adv | already adv | and | rotate 3pl pres I | and | dat refl clt | create 2sg pres P |
35 (a) [2:16] this sort of gruel, and they ate it in place of rice. Such coarse food,
such sg f dist adj | bulghur sg f | for | rice sg m | in | place sg n | eat 3pl impf I | such pl dist adj | coarse pl adj | food pl f |
36 (a) [2:22] but the people were healthy. You’ll cook up corn flour – we called it polenta.
but | 3sg impf cop | healthy sg m adj | hes | folk sg m def | corn sg n adj | flour sg n | fut | cook 2sg pres P | call 1pl impf I | acc n 3sg clt | polenta sg m |
37 (a) [2:28] You’ll take so many chunks and lay them out. Back then there weren’t tables,
excl | fut | extract 2sg pres P | so.much pl med adj | chunk pl m | arrange 3pl pres P | then med adv | impf neg exist | table sg f |
38 (a) [2:31] but rather a low “sofra”. You put it on the “sofra” and then you take out
and | table sg f | and | acc n 3sg clt | put 2sg pres I | on | low.table sg f def dist | and | and | then med adv | extract 2sg pres P |
39 (a) [2:35] peppers from the barrel of brine. and it was nice. One ate well,
pepper pl f | pepper pl f | from | barrel sg f | brine sg f | and | nice sg n adj | sg n L.part cop | eat sg n L.part I | acc refl clt |
40 (a) [2:41] and people were more – more healthy. But now they give –
and | more | more | healthy sg m adj | 3sg impf cop | people sg m def | but | now adv | now adv | comp | dat m 3sg clt | give 3pl pres P |
41 (b) [2:45] That food you give now to people today – they won’t eat it.
now adv | that sg f dist adj | food sg f | comp | acc f 3sg clt | give 2sg pres P | to | today sg m def prox adj | folk sg m | fut neg | comp | eat 3sg pres I |
42 (a) [2:48] They won’t [find] any taste in it. But back then they ate, and it was good.
fut neg | comp | acc n 3sg clt | taste 3sg pres P | that sg n dist adj | but | then dist adv | acc m 3sg clt | eat 3pl impf I | and | nice sg n adj | sg n L.part cop |
43 (a) [2:51] But now you lick a bit, they put all this sugar in, and other things,
but | now adv | lick 2sg pres P | little adv | put 3pl pres I | and | sweet sg n adj | such pl dist adj | from | one sg n adj | other sg n adj |
44 (a) [2:56] And you don’t feel like eating. You don’t have [unintelligible]
and | dat 2sg clt | acc refl clt | 3sg pres aux clt | neg | eat sg n L.part I | because | not.have 2sg pres I | 2sg pres aux clt |
45 (TD) Um hm.
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46 (a) [3:02] but back then there weren’t such sweet things. We set out for Shiroka Lŭka
and | then med adv | impf neg exist | such pl med adj | sweets pl m | depart 1pl pres P | to | Shiroka.Lŭka |
47 (a) [3:07] (our mother) – You’ll set out today and go to Shiroka Lǔka,
mother f sg | dat 1pl clt | fut | set.out 2sg pres P | today adv | fut | go 2sg pres P | to | Shiroka.Lŭka |
48 (a) [3:09] you’ll cut some bread and you’ll take that bread back with you
and | fut | dat refl clt | cut 2sg pres P | bread sg m | from | this sg m med adj | bread sg m | and | fut | acc m 3sg clt | carry 2sg pres P |
49 (a) [3:12] to the village, and when you come back you say to the child –
to | village sg n | and | when inter.rel | acc refl clt | return 2sg pres P | and | call 2sg pres I | to | child sg n def dist |
50 (a) [3:15] and the child says, “What did you bring me, Mama?”
and | nom sg n | call 3sg pres I | what sg n interr | dat 1sg clt | 2sg pres aux clt | bring sg f L.part P | Mom voc sg f |
51 (a) [3:17] and you say “Here, have some of the “priest’s bread”,
hort | hort | from | priest sg m def adj | bread sg m |
52 (b) [3:19] [laughter]
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53 (a) [3:19] because it is supposed to be tasty, and the child took the bread.
because | sg m L.part cop | tasty sg m adj | and | nom sg n | dat refl clt | acc m 3sg clt | take.out sg n L.part P | bread sg m def dist |
54 (a) [3:21] You give it to him and the child eats it, and it’s tasty
and | and | dat m 3sg clt | give 2sg pres P | and | nom sg n | eat 3sg pres I | and | because | tasty sg m adj |
55 (a) [3:23] because it’s supposedly from the “priest’s bread” [laughter].
because | sg m L.part cop | from | priest sg m def adj |
56 (b) [3:24] [laughter]
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57 (a) [3:27] Hah! Look at the world, going along like this,
excl | and | see sg imv P | how interr | world sg m def dist | ost | acc m 3sg clt | walk 3sg pres I | walk 3sg pres I |
58 (a) [3:29] and look how it’s [completely] messed up.
and | what sg n interr | acc refl clt | turn.over 3sg aor P |
59 (TD) [That’s] right.
true adv |
60 (b) [3:33] Ah, the world is running things. It spins and spins and spins and spins,
disc | world sg m def prox | dat refl clt | crown 3sg pres I | thus prox adv | acc refl clt | spin 3sg | spin 3sg | spin 3sg | spin 3sg |
61 (b) [3:40] and now it’s all spun around to this. And to this –
now adv | acc refl clt | spin sg n L.part P | come sg n L.part P | this sg n prox adj | and | to | this sg n prox adj |
62 (a) [3:43] Who knows what’s coming next.
who sg m interr | know 3sg pres I | again adv | what sg n interr | fut | come 3sg pres P |
63 (b) [3:44] Well, something else will come.
other sg n adj | fut | come 3sg pres P | again adv |
64 (a) [3:44] Nobody knows. But it’s [all] come, my son, from the Lord.
nobody sg m | neg | know 3sg pres I | but | from | lord acc sg m | son sg m | come sg n L.part P |
65 (a) [3:51] If it were only for Bulgaria, it wouldn’t be just for Bulgaria.
if conj | 3sg pres cop clt | for | in | Bulgaria sg f place | Bulgaria sg f place | neg | want 3sg pres I | comp | 3sg pres cop clt |
66 (a) [3:53] You see, it’s boiling all over the world. Some have elections, some vote,
see sg imv P | in | entire sg m adj | world m | boil 3sg pres I | entire sg m adj | world m | one pl adj | choose 3pl pres I | one pl adj | vote 3pl pres I |
67 (a) [3:57] some fight, and they [all] suffer so much. And where [did all this come from]?
and | acc refl clt | neg | fight 3pl pres I | and | so.much prox adv | suffer 1pl aor P | nom sg n | from | where interr |
68 (a) [4:00] All this has come from the Lord, the way people are exterminating one another …
from | lord acc sg m | 3sg pres aux clt | come sg n L.part P | thus prox adv | comp | acc refl clt | exterminate 3pl pres P | folk sg m def prox |
69 (PSh) What can they do?
what sg n interr | comp | acc refl clt | do 3pl pres P |
70 (a) [4:05] … exterminating one another, decimating the people
comp | acc refl clt | exterminate 3pl pres P | comp | acc refl clt | decimate 3pl pres P | folk sg m def |
71 (a) [4:07] so that fewer will remain to live [on the earth]. All that
for | comp | remain 3pl pres P | more | little adv | comp | comp | live 3pl pres I | everything sg n def dist adj | 3sg pres cop clt | that sg n dist adj |
72 (a) [4:11] has come from the Lord. Because if it was only in Bulgaria,
from | lord acc sg m | 3sg pres aux clt | come sg n L.part P | because | if conj | 3sg pres cop clt | only adv | in | Bulgaria sg f place |
73 (a) [4:14] it wouldn’t be [that way]. But look, everywhere now,
neg | want 3sg pres I | comp | 3sg pres cop clt | and | and | disc | see sg imv P | everywhere adv | now adv |
74 (a) [4:17] [all] the sorts of states no one has ever heard of!
ost | what.sort pl def med | 3pl pres cop clt | state pl f | never adv | neg | 3sg pres aux clt | hear sg n L.part I |
75 (a) [4:20] And now you hear of them – I don’t know what all they are doing –
now adv | acc 3pl clt | hear 2sg pres I | that | neg | know 1sg pres I | what sg n interr | do 3pl pres I |
76 (a) [4:24] and when you think on it, you see something’s come. The end is coming.
and | when inter.rel | acc n 3sg clt | think 2sg pres P | see sg imv P | that conj | come sg n L.part P | such sg n dist adj | end sg m def prox | follow 3sg pres I | this sg n med adj |
77 (a) [4:30] I remember that in the Bible it says in the year 2000 –
and | in | Bible sg f def prox | remember 1sg pres I | write 3sg pres I | two.thousand sg f def med adj | year sg f |
78 (b) [4:34] What’s written in the Bible is the year 2012.
disc | with | two.thousand sg f def med adj | and | twelfth f adj | year sg f | 3sg pres cop clt | record sg n P.part P | in | Bible sg f def med |
79 (b) [4:36] I read it there.
ost | acc f 3sg clt | read 1sg pres I | there adv |
80 (a) [4:36] We have a Bible here that the old man reads. The Bible's over there.
disc | nom 1pl | here adv | have 1pl pres I | Bible sg f | where rel dist | and | read 3sg pres I | old.man sg m def med | Bible sg f def dist | ost | there adv |
81 (TD) You read it?
read 2pl pres I | acc f 3sg clt |
82 (a) [4:45] Ah, he takes it up to read and never goes out, he just reads it.
disc | nom m 3sg | take 3sg pres P | and | where interr | nowhere adv | neg | go.out 3sg pres I | then med adv | acc m 3sg clt | read 3sg pres I |
83 (a) [4:49] Just look at him, no glasses. See, [even] at these [advanced] years.
disc | see sg imv P | nom m 3sg | and | without | glasses pl.t | see sg imv P | at | this pl prox adj | year pl f |
84 (a) [4:51] he reads without glasses.
and | without | glasses pl.t | dat refl clt | read 3sg pres I |
85 (TD) Uh huh.
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86 (PSh) You [can] still see?
see 2sg pres I | still adv |
87 (b) [4:57] I’ll see till the end [of my days].
to | end sg m def | fut | look 1sg pres I |
88 (a) [5:01] They used to tell us that he sees so much because he ate
then med adv | dat 1pl clt | call 3pl pres I | that conj | nom m 3sg | much adv | dat refl clt | see 3sg pres P | because | eat sg m L.part I |
89 (a) [5:03] so many blueberries. They’re good for sight, you know,
many adv | black pl adj | blueberry pl f | and | nom 3pl | interr | for | for | sight sg m def med |
90 (a) [5:09] and people eat a lot of them. In Karlak there’s only blueberries.
and | many adv | eat 3pl pres I | and | acc 3pl | and | disc | Karlak sg m place | only adv | black pl adj | blueberry pl f |
91 (a) [5:13] And he eats no [less than] tons of blueberries!
excl | disc | neg | ton pl m | eat 3sg pres I | blueberry pl f |
92 (PSh) laughter
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93 (a) [5:16] All day long – he walks and eats them.
by | entire sg m adj | day sg m | what sg n interr | comp | and | walk 3sg pres I | eat 3sg pres I |
94 (a) [5:21] One year a doctor lady came up from Plovdiv and brought a boy
one f sg adj | year sg f | from | Plovdiv | 3sg impf aux | come sg f L.part P | one f adj | doctor sg f | and | 3sg impf aux | bring sg f L.part P | boy sg n |
95 (a) [5:25] [wrapped in] a sheet. She said, “They told me,” she said, that he’d begun
in | bedsheet pl f | call 3sg pres I | say 3pl aor P | disc | call 3sg pres I | begin 3sg aor P |
96 (a) [5:29] to lose his sight. They said that [he needed to eat] blueberries.
comp | neg | can 3sg pres I | comp | see 3sg pres I | say 3pl aor P | comp | black pl adj | blueberry pl f |
97 (b) [5:32] He was nearsighted.
short.sight sg n adj | 3sg impf cop |
98 (a) [5:33] He wasn’t! No, [in fact] it turned out that he was not nearsighted.
neg | 3sg impf cop | but | neg | nom sg n | sg n L.part cop | dat refl clt | neg | 3sg pres cop clt | short.sight sg n adj |
99 (a) [5:35] He’d begun to lose his sight, so our people brought her here
but | take sg n L.part P | comp | neg | can 3sg pres I | comp | see 3sg pres I | then med adv | our pl def med adj | acc f 3sg clt | bring 3pl aor I | above adv |
100 (a) [5:39] and she gathered two cans of blueberries and told me to give them to him
and | two f | can pl f | gather 3sg aor P | black pl adj | blueberry pl f | call 3sg pres I | comp | dat n 3sg clt | give 1sg pres I |
101 (a) [5:42] to eat. She was from Plovdiv, this doctor woman, and stayed over here
comp | comp | eat 3sg pres I |
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3sg impf cop | from | Plovdiv sg m place | disc | doctor sg f | and | here adv | sleep 3sg aor I |
102 (a) [5:47] Our people brought her, and she gathered blueberries.
and | acc f 3sg clt | bring 3pl aor P | our pl def med adj | gather 3sg aor P | blueberry pl f |
103 (PSh) And when do the blueberries ripen?
and | when interr | ripen 3pl pres I | blueberry pl f def |
104 (a) [5:54] Now, in August.
now adv | in | August sg m |
105 (b) [5:55] Now, in the month of August.
now adv | during | August sg m | month sg m |
106 (a) [5:57] In August there’s raspberries and blueberries – blueberries and cranberries both.
during | August sg m | month sg m | raspberry pl f | blueberry pl f | pres exist | and | black pl adj | and | red pl adj | blueberry pl f |
107 (b) [6:10] Ah, yes, Nature has given us all kinds of fruits. But we’ve gotten old.
disc | nature sg f def med | dat 1pl clt | 3sg pres aux clt | endow sg f L.part P | with | all pl adj | fruit pl m | but | nom 1pl | grow.old 1pl aor P |