Tud-om text is made up of couplets and the two verse lines exhibit parallelism in three aspects: (1) sound, (2) morphology (morphophonemics), and (3) meaning (synonymy). Below are examples of the morphophonemics of the text. Words in the second verse lines are altered, particularly adding the rhetorical marker /es/. In addition, archaic words in the second verse lines are substituted for words in the first (not shown below). For example, the archaic word “sisem” is substituted for “inum” (to drink).

Morphophonemics

Couplet A

Word in Line 1                    eghingwanen 

                                           eg + hingaw + en

                                                   ↓

          in Line 2, it becomes eghingawesen, that is,

                                            eg + hingaw + es + en

Couplet B

Word in Line 1                    migtidew

                                           mig + tidew

                                                   ↓

         in Line 2, it becomes migtigdasen, that is, 

                                           mig + tidew + es + en

            

Couplet C

Word in Line 1                    yubadan

        in Line 2, it becomes  egyugbasan  

                                           eg + yugbadan (/s/ alters the /d/)