Four Discourse Genre in Amganad Ifugao

Appendix A. Narrative Text: Hi Puddunan

1. Idiye e anu ya wada han tagu hidin nadne
that concerning said exist a person long-ago

an hi Puddunan ,
who Puddunan

2. Hidiyen tagu ya e anu munay'ayyam an waday
that person went said playing exist-that

ena tigon hinan billid .
go-he see in- the forest

3. Imme ya mangngemangnge ya ma" id nan ena tigon
went and went-and-went and none what going-he see

an ena hama* on .
tEat going-he find

4 . Ya mangngemangnge ya lo y tat ya imme hidi hinan
and went- and- went and later went there to

awadan di bob 1 en nan Alta.
where the village- of the Negritoes

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5. Dadiyen Alta an tatagu ya hidi hinan billid
those Negritoes who people and there on- the mountain

di niha M adanda hinan baktun di ad nunbaetan di ad
lived- they on- the top oF between of

Hingyon hi ad Ubwag .
Hingyon in Ubwag.

6 « Hidi hinan niha M adandan batu an

there in where- lived- they-which stone which

liyong ta niha !t adda hidi hi nihaMadanda .
cave lived- they there at lived- they

7. Ha £ anuy baleda ya umat hinan payong
concerning said-of house- their like an umbrella

nee nan baleda an wa e ta ipluy hidi nan
exp house- their when pass there the

udan ya inhanggadah di nan atopna ta
rain put- toward- they there roof- its so- that

adida mahnong .
not-they wet

8. Himmawwang anu ya wadah di an ma M idda an
appeared said and exist there none-they

ammuna nan binabai an wah di han numbutyug
only the women exist there a pregnant

ya hay u"unga .
and the children

9. Kumugakuga anuh diyen babai .
crying said that woman

10. Alyon anuh Puddunan di, Ta nganun y a kumanukuga ?
said said Puddunan QS why- you crying

11. Alyonay , 0, te agagga ya bumuduh nan golang hi putu 1
said-she-QS yes bee. soon come-out the baby in belly-my

12. Ot umali nan inaya * an imme nun'anup ot mahapul
then come husband-my who went hunting then necessary

an bughiona ' ta ahi bumuduh. nan golang .
that open-me so-that before come-out the baby

13. Alyonay , Bughion da'a e ya undan adi'a mo mate?
said-he-QS open you if rhet not-you now die

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14. Alyonay , Matea f a.
said-she-QS die- I echo

15 . Hidiyen golang di mabati ya abut, alyon diye
that baby stay-behind only said that

anu an babai .
said woman

16. Alyonay Aa, adi umat hidi , an alyona .
said-he-QS ah not like that said-he

17. Di e ta da'mi e, an alyon Puddunan ,
concerning us concerning said Puddunan

Zi nan golang e ^a munayyam anan babai
and the baby concerning give-birth the woman

ya ammuna nan golang an bumuduh ya mabati

only the baby who come-out and stay-behind

nan babain adi mate ,
the woman not die

18. 0, ya ongal anuy am 1 am' long diyen babai .
yes and big said-the happiness that woman

19 . Indani anu ya mundogoh nan golang .
later said give-pain the baby

20. Ya hiya ya wah di diyen hi Puddunan .
and it exist there that Puddunan

21. Ya hiya moy nangipapto ' .
and he now took- care

22. Hiyay nangdon hinan golang ta nalpah an
he-who held the baby so-that finished

himmuduh nan golang ya bimmuduh boy balena
came-out the baby and came-out also-its placenta-its

ya

ena inka ut.

and went-he bury

23-39 Tells the arrival of the husband of the woman and his

conversation with Puddunan. Puddunan taught the Negritoes
how to become midwives in the latter part. This is the
denoument of the story.

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40 • US. H hidi y e nan onga*ongal anuy namhod dadiyen
exp that bigger said love those

Alta I Puddunan , te de an ma" id mon
Negritoes ~" Puddunan Eec. tlien none now

mataguda an adida mo mate ,
alive- they not- they now die

41 • Ta'on on nan binabai mo ^a pohdonda %& alyonday ,

even tHe women now like -they and said-they-QS

Aa £1> ha naot ta at hina ta hitun nadne ^a
"SfT exp may like that here long-ago

matenateda nan immuna an wa ha imbabale ya
died-they the first who exist children

nateda.
died-they

Narrative Text: Puddunan, Free Translation

1. Concerning that of long ago, it is said, there was a
person whose name was Puddunan.

2. That person went, it is said, walking to find something
in the forest.

3. He went and he kept going and there was none that which he was
going to look for.

4. And he kept going and later he was going there to the village
of the Negritoes.

5. Those Negrito people lived there on the mountain top between
Hingyon and Ubwag.

6. There where they lived, which was stone caves, was where they lived.

7. As for their houses, it is said, they were like an umbrella-shape
and when the rain blew in that direction, they put the roof toward
it so that they would not get wet.

8. He came (to the place), it is said, and there were only women,
one was pregnant, and children but (the men) were not there.

9. That woman was crying, it is said,

10. Puddunan said, "Why are you crying?"

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11. She said, "Yes, because soon the baby in my belly will come out.

12. Than my husband who went hunting will come home and it is
necessary that he opens me before the baby will come out. M

13. He said, "If he will open you, will you not now die?"

14. She said, "Of course, I will die.

15. Only that baby will live", said the woman, it is said.

16. He said, "Ah, it is not like that", he said.

17. "As for our custom", said Puddunan, "and as for the baby,
the woman gives birth and only the baby comes out and
the woman lives and does not die."

18. Yes, that woman was very happy, it is said.

19. Later, it is said, the baby started giving pain.

20. And Puddunan was there.

21. .And he was now the one who took care of everything.

22. He was the one who got hold of the baby and after the
baby came out, the placenta came out also and he went to
bury it.

23-39 Denoument

40. That is the reason, it is said, those Negritoes greatly
loved Puddunan because they lived and did not die.

41. Even the women loved him and they said, "Ah, may

it be like that because in the past the ones before
died, as those having a child would die."

Madrid, Angelina (Helen) F. 1980. Four Discourse Genre in
Amganad Ifugao. Studies in Philippine Linguistics 4:1:101-143.