Balanced clauses are used to reflect direct quotations, while deranked clauses are used to make indirect quotations:

vé nukénot uklin istak

[1sg home-1sg-DAT go-0-GER.LOC say-PERF-3sg.m.]

"He said I want(ed) to go home"

nukénot ukélin istak

[home-1sg-DAT go-1sg-GER.LOC say-PERF-3sg.m.]

"He said, 'I want to go home'"