Source: Aesop's Fables, English by George Fyler Townsend (1867, public domain), text from Project Gutenberg (eBook 21): The Fox and the Grapes, The Ants and the Grasshopper, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf.
Literal: PL = ma, NOT = ne, REQ = vo, QUOTE = re, NEAR = hi, Q = ka, PST = po, FUT = vi, ONLY = so, ALREADY = ti, ALSO = mo, ADV = adverb ending, ADJ = adjective ending. Compounds with hyphens.
A famished Fox saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a trellised vine. She resorted to all her tricks to get at them, but wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them. At last she turned away, hiding her disappointment and saying: "The Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought." The Ants were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him, "Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?" He replied, "I had not leisure enough. I passed the days in singing." They then said in derision: "If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter." A Hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, … … who replied, laughing: "Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race." The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the race the two started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue. Slow but steady wins the race. A Shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep;" … but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock. There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
animal-hard have PL foot short, and it go slow-ADV. hare laugh in matter NEAR in one day
A Hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, …
Notes (3)
tortoise = vematada (animal + hard), a new term.
di tama ma tasa vubeni su nuba vusevi vematada would not work well: vematada after the second member would specify only that one (su joins whole groups). So first two simple sentences about the tortoise.
hare want ALSO, because it think, that thing NEAR impossible-be. PL it want, that REQ dog-red choose path and goal
The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal.
Notes (2)
“Assent” = dure mo (want it too), as in “The North Wind and the Sun”. It comes first: after the de clause, a su clause would still belong to the subordinate clause.
The moral as a sentence: “Whoever goes slowly but does not stop wins the race.” The verbs joined with ho count as one; the relative clause ends at the verb of the main clause (gete).
sheep-person-small protect group sheep in side village. he call three-times or four-times QUOTE wolf QUOTE wolf. PL person village come for helping he, but sheep-person-small laugh in matter PL he
A Shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains.
Notes (3)
shepherd boy = dorovarisa (from “The Shepherd Boy”), “watch” = noge (protect), “flock” = gena dorova.
“Three or four times” = kiro jo feno: two adverbs with jo.
“Wolf! Wolf!” are two quoted short sentences; the punctuation of the whole sentence comes at the end.