How to generate verbs

“Verb“ is an umbrella category for four parts-of-speech in Plains Cree:

• VTA (🧑🏽 ➡️ 🧑🏽): Transitive Animate Verb
• VTI (🧑🏽 ➡️ 📦): Transitive Inanimate Verb
• VAI (🧑🏽 ➡️): Animate Intransitive Verb
• VII (📦 ➡️): Inanimate Intransitive Verb

These parts-of-speech differ in how many animate (🧑🏽 ➡️) arguments they have, and the words increase in conjugations, the more animate arguments they have.

VTA

Template

{lemma}+V+TA+{Order}+{Tense}+{Actor}+{Goal}

Prefixes := (({Reduplication})*{Preverb}])*{Reduplication}*
Tense := Prs | Pst | Fut
Order := Ind | Cnj | Imp

Examples

kiwâpamitin is a form of wâpamêw:

• Order: Ind (Independent)
• Tense: Prs (Present — Something happening now)
• Actor: 1Sg (First person — I am doing something)

• Goal: 2SgO (Second person goal — something is happening to you)

  wâpamêw+V+TA+Ind+Prs+1Sg+2SgO

ê-wâpamât is a form of wâpamêw:

• Prevervs: PV/e (ê-)
• Order: Cnj (Independent)
• Tense: Prs (Present — Something happening now)
• Actor: 3Sg (First person — He or she is doing something)

• Goal: 4Sg/PlO (Obviative goal — something is happening to that person over there)

  PV/e+wâpamêw+V+TA+Cnj+Prs+3Sg+4Sg/PlO

Specifying Tense

TODO: write up what any of this means:

kî-nipâw nipâw+V+AI+Ind+Prt+3Sg wî-nipâw nipâw+V+AI+Ind+Fut+Int+3Sg ka-nipâw nipâw+V+AI+Ind+Fut+Def+3Sg

echo PV/kaa+ohkomiw+V+AI+Cnj+Prt+1Sg | hfst-optimized-lookup –silent crk-normative-generator.hfstol PV/kaa+ohkomiw+V+AI+Cnj+Prt+1Sg kâ-kî-ohkomiyân