 Usually this noun seems to be the performer of the action.Angute-m tuqute-llru-a-a.Man-ERGATIVE kill-PAST-INDICATIVE-TRANSITIVE-3SG/3SG

'The man(ERGATIVE) killed it'



The absulutive case is usually unmarked but it is used to show the subject of an
intransitive verb and the object of a transitive one.