Georgi Kolev
Šumnatica 2
1 (GK) You’re close to the border here. If [now] were [like] it was “before” [the changes]
| nom 2pl | 2pl pres cop clt | here adv | near adv | to | border sg f def | before adv | if conj | 3sg impf cop |
2 (GK) they wouldn’t have allowed us [to come] here.
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fut.pst
neg
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comp | acc 1pl clt | allow 3pl pres P | here adv |
3 (a) [0:04] Oh yes! [In the days] “before,” not at all! They wouldn’t have allowed you.
| excl | before adv | if conj | 3sg impf cop | no | no | fut neg | comp | acc 2pl clt | allow 3sg pres P |
4 (a) [0:07] [That is,] they would allow you, but you had to, had to have the “open form”
| fut | acc 2pl clt | allow 3sg pres P | but | must pres I imprs | must pres I imprs | comp | have 2pl pres I | open sg m adj | form sg m |
5 (a) [0:10] and to have it verified, you know? If [we] were still “before,” [that is].
| comp | acc m 3sg clt | verify 2pl pres I | understand 2sg pres I | interr clt | before adv | what sg n interr | 3sg impf cop |
6 (a) [0:14] But now it’s – now it’s freedom. Yes, it’s freedom now, but
| disc | now adv | 3sg pres cop clt | disc | now adv | 3sg pres cop clt | freedom sg f | disc | now adv | 3sg pres cop clt | freedom sg f | but |
7 (a) [0:18] everything is [so] expensive, brother! Devil take it, just look
| everything sg n def med adj | 3sg pres cop clt | expensive sg n adj | adrs | brother voc sg m | but | why interr | thus med adv | Mom sg f | dat m 3sg clt | old sg f adj |
8 (a) [0:21] how it’s all gotten expensive! People are a little unhappy with “democracy.”
| everything sg n adj | get.expensive 3sg aor P | people pl def med | neg | 3pl pres cop clt | satisfied pl adj | little adv | from | democracy sg f def med |
9 (GK) Well, it’s hard. It’s going to be hard in the beginning.
| disc | hard adv | in | beginning sg n def | fut | 3sg pres cop clt | hard adv |
10 (a) [0:28] Won’t it just!
| interr |
11 (GK) Hard.
| hard adv |
12 (a) [0:30] They keep on raising [the price] of bread, you know. And such. And did you know
| bread sg m def | understand 2sg pres I | interr clt | increase 3pl pres I | acc m 3sg clt | increase 3pl pres I | acc m 3sg clt | disc | ost | acc m 3sg clt | understand 2sg pres I | interr clt |
13 (a) [0:35] [that] cooking oil used to be eighteen levs, and they raised it to thirty-five levs.
| oil sg n def med | 3sg impf cop | eighteen | lev ct m | make 3sg aor P | acc n 3sg clt | thirty | and | five | lev ct m |
14 (GK) It’s thirty-five levs here where you are?
| here adv | thirty | and | five | interr clt | 3sg pres cop clt | by | acc 2pl |
15 (a) [0:40] Yesterday in Kurdzhali [some people] paid thirty-five levs somewhere for oil.
| in | Kurdzhali sg m place | yesterday adv | take pl L.part I | oil sg n | somewhere adv | thirty | and | five | lev ct m |
16 (GK) Wow, I hadn’t heard that.
| neg | 1sg pres aux clt | acc m 3sg clt | hear sg m L.part I | this sg n adj | adrs |
17 (a) [0:45] That’s what they’re saying right now, this morning.
| disc | disc | disc | now adv | now adv | tell 3pl pres I | this sg f med adj | morning sg f |
18 (a) [0:48] So, what is this stuff?
| hes | what sg n interr | 3sg pres cop clt | this sg n med adj | thing sg n |
19 (GK) When we left Sofia it was thirty levs.
| nom 1pl | when conj | set.off 1pl aor P | from | Sofia sg f place | 3sg impf cop | thirty | lev ct m |
20 (a) [0:52] Thirty.
| thirty |
21 (VZh) And there wasn’t any. Right?
| and | neg exist | disc |
22 (a) [0:54] Thirty levs – and there wasn’t any! None here [either]. But in Kurdzhali
| thirty | and | neg exist | here adv | neg exist | not.at.all | but | in | Kurdzhali sg m place |
23 (a) [0:57] [where] some of our folk went yesterday, it was thirty-five levs.
| yesterday adv | 3pl pres aux clt | go pl L.part P | some pl adj | our pl adj | people pl | here adv | thirty | and | five | lev ct m |
24 (GK) Mm.
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25 (a) [1:01] [laughter]
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26 (GK) I hadn’t – I really hadn’t heard [anything like] that.
| neg | 1sg pres aux clt | acc n 3sg clt | neg | 1sg pres aux clt | hear sg m L.part P | this sg n adj | thing sg n |
27 (VZh) [So who] built the railway line to Podkovo? Was it the Germans?
| but | line sg f def | German pl m def | interr clt | acc f 3sg clt | make 3pl aor P | to | Podkovа sg f place |
28 (a) [1:06] Yes, it was the Germans who built the railway line. The Germans. The Germans
| disc | line sg f def med | German pl m def med | acc n 3sg clt | make 3pl aor P | yes | German pl m def med | German pl m def med |
29 (a) [1:11] at that time gathered conscript labor from here, from our village,
| then med adv | nom 3pl | gather 3pl aor P | from | here adv | from | our sg n def med adj | village sg n | conscript pl m |
30 (a) [1:14] and they worked there. Some of them ran off, and went to prison [for that]. [laughter]
| there adv | work 3pl aor I | some pl adj | escape 3pl aor P | go 3pl aor P | in | prison sg m def |
31 (a) [1:19] Some went to prison for a year.
| go 3pl aor P | one f sg adj | year sg f | in | prison sg m def | some pl adj |
32 (GK) Didn’t the Germans shoot them?
| neg | acc 3pl clt | interr clt | shoot 3pl aor P | German pl m def |
33 (a) [1:22] Who?
| to | who acc sg m |
34 (GK) The ones that escaped.
| rel | 3pl pres aux clt | escape pl L.part P |
35 (a) [1:23] But who escaped?
| but | who pl interr | 3pl pres aux clt | escape pl L.part P |
36 (GK) Uh –
| hes |
37 (a) [1:26] Oh no, no. Not those. They were soldiers at conscript labor.
| disc | no | no | this sg n med adj | disc | nom 3pl | 3pl impf cop | like | conscript pl m | soldier pl m |
38 (GK) Mm.
| bkch |
39 (a) [1:32] Soldiers at conscript labor. And Bulgaria was in charge of the ones …
| conscript pl m | soldier pl m | and | mean 3sg pres I | Bulgaria sg f place | dat 3pl clt | direct 3sg pres I | disc | acc 3pl |
40 (GK) Aha!
| bkch |
41 (a) [1:36] … [working] on the railway line, [at the time] when I was working there.
| to | line sg f def med | when inter.rel | work 1sg impf I | there adv |
42 (GK) [So it] wasn’t [the Germans] who were in charge of them.
| neg | acc 3pl clt | direct 3pl impf I | […] |
43 (a) [1:38] And Yu – the Yugoslavs. There were Serb and Italian prisoners.
| and | […] | Yugoslav pl adj | Serb pl m | Italian pl m | have 3pl impf I | […] | prisoner pl m |
44 (a) [1:42] They didn’t – They treated the ones from Italy really badly.
| neg | acc 3pl clt | disc | from | Italy sg f place | understand 2sg pres I | interr clt | nom 3pl | acc 3pl clt | mistreat 3pl aor P | much adv |
45 (a) [1:46] So the railway line came from Momchilgrad to Podkovo. And [the workers]
| from | Momchilgrad sg m place | to | Podkova sg f place | come 3sg aor P | line sg f def med | but |
46 (a) [1:49] worked like beasts. [laughter]
| work 3pl aor I | like | beast pl m |
47 (GK) So it wasn’t the Germans in charge of them [but rather] our people!
| disc | mean 3sg pres I | neg | acc 3pl clt | direct 3pl impf I | German pl m def | our pl def adj |
48 (a) [1:54] Ours [indeed]! The –The Bulgarians were in charge of them. Yes.
| our pl def med adj | dat refl clt | acc 3pl clt | direct 3pl pres I | […] | Bulgarian pl m def med | yes |
49 (GK) Uh huh.
| bkch |
50 (a) [1:58] [cough] The Italians worked on the line, and after that the Yugoslavs, and
| and | Italian pl m | work 3pl aor I | to | line sg f def med | after | this sg n med adj | Yugoslav pl adj |
51 (a) [2:02] there were also conscript laborers from our village working on the line.
| and | from | here adv | from | our sg n def med adj | village sg n | have 3sg impf I | conscript pl m | work 3pl aor I | on | line sg f def med |
52 (a) [2:06] [laughter] That’s what I’m telling you about. I was afraid!
| and | then med adv | this sg n med adj | dat 2sg clt | tell 1sg pres I | understand 2sg pres I | interr clt | nom 1sg | acc refl clt | frighten 1sg aor P |
53 (a) [2:11] Well, the Germans were saying “Hey, five more days,” they said,
| call 1sg pres I | but | speak 3pl pres I | German pl m def med | call 3pl pres I | excl | still | five | day ct m | call 3sg pres I |
54 (a) [2:17] “and Greece is ‘kaput’!” Well, that means they’ll attack in that direction. OK, well, I have
| Greece sg f place | 3sg pres cop clt | kaput indcl adj | mean 3sg pres I | fut | attack 3pl pres P | onward adv | good adv | but | nom 1sg | have 1sg pres I |
55 (a) [2:23] a brother, you know. And I’d come here – they’d let us out a bit,
| and | brother sg m | understand 2sg pres I | interr clt | come 1sg aor P | dat refl clt | nom 1sg | here adv | allow 3pl aor P | acc 1pl clt | little adv |
56 (a) [2:26] [given us] a week of leave to sort things out, and I came here on leave
| to | rest sg f | one f sg adj | week sg f | comp | dat refl clt | make 1pl pres P | and | come 1sg aor P | dat refl clt | to | rest sg f |
57 (a) [2:30] and I said to my brother, “Listen here, there’s really good money
| nom 1sg | dat m 3sg clt | call 1sg pres I | to | [ ... ] | brother sg m | dat 1sg clt | listen sg imv I | adrs | very adv | nice pl adj | money pl.t |
58 (a) [2:34] to be had from the Germans, and good food. Go for it!” I said to my brother.
| give 3pl pres I | German pl m def med | nice sg f adj | food sg f | give 3pl pres I | call 1sg pres I | walk sg imv I | nom 2sg | to | brother sg m | dat 1sg clt |
59 (a) [2:38] “Ah, I’m afraid,” he said. “They’ll start a war
| disc | no | nom 1sg | fear adv | acc 1sg clt | 3sg pres cop clt | call 3sg pres I | fut | dat refl clt | begin 3pl pres P | war sg f |
60 (a) [2:40] and they’ll kill us as well.”
| and | acc 3pl | fut | kill 3pl pres P |