YOU SAID:
there is a cat in the roof of my fathers barn
INTO JAPANESE
私の父の納屋の屋根の中に猫がいます
BACK INTO ENGLISH
There is a cat in the roof of my father's barn.
INTO JAPANESE
父の納屋の屋根の中に猫がいます。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
There is a cat in the roof of my father's barn.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.