Reason-result

Definition

The result follows from an event which contained no intention of bringing it about. Answers the question: Why this result?

English examples

• Because the floor was dirty, she swept it.
• John washed the car because it was dirty.
• I was hungry, so I went to lunch.

Kovol examples

• Om mohis endet holo his ig hebi, ombo hobol nom amonggyam.
  "These people are the same we think, so this is what we're talking about."
• Inda mot skul ilo wig, ombo hoyom wig.
  “Fathers didn't go to school, so they don't know”
• Tobogot, ombo hobol hene nom egeng.
  "(he) came, so that is the story."

Kovol description

Reason-result consists of a reason proposition that comes first, the connecting word ombo and then the result proposition. In English, the order can be flexible, but Kovol appears to have the order of reason first.

Ombo is also a Location word. Presumably, the meaning of "here" is primary and "because/so" is a secondary meaning.

Degree of certainty

Medium

DA texts studied had quite complex reason-result proposition clusters, but only a few simple reason-result proposition relationships of single clauses. Dozens of examples were given using ombo, and those provided above are the simplest. That seems to be enough to conclude that the ombo word is used.

Philip suggests in his hortatory write-up that

H6_19-20

• “hebi noheb”
  means "they looked and so they saw you"

and H6_25-29

• "meme nemb wi tugub ogotelebi, om ebebi, egeme pigong.”
  means "you ate things and finished (things) and left, and you took, and so you put it outside"

This doesn't seem to fit the pattern seen elsewhere and is only from a single text. Could it be Simultaneous?