Ene(1) hawe=an(2)=i(3)
So(1) ø=said(2) that(3)
So(1)
(he)=said(2)that(3)To tell the true
i isnt anything like English auxiliary verb to have. I asked professor Nakagawa Hiroshi to explain me this phrase. And he kindly sent me the following commentary:"
an is not a free form but a part of an intransitive verb hawean, meaning 'to say';i is a truncated form of a nominalizer hi;
therefore
ene hawean i can be translated into 'so said that' or 'said such a comment that ...' itak=i speech is the same construction. hi can mean 'that', 'thing', 'place' or 'time', so pirka hi (not 'pirika') can be translated into 'the thing that is good', 'a good place' or 'a good time'."