Chester Pepper: "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (1957)
Primary participants: Chester Pepper (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-12
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 198-199, Text
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Text display mode: paragraph | sentence | word | word components
| [1] | vaa | u-kúpha-anik | pihnêefich | uum |
| so | 3s(>3)-do-ANC | coyote | 3.SG |
| Coyote did this way. |
| [2] | mâam | pa-kúusra | t-u-váruprav |
| uphill | the-sun | PERF-3s(>3)-come.out |
| The sun rose just uphill. |
| [3] | u-xú-tih | ku-mâam | ú-krii | pa-kúusrah |
| 3s(>3)-think-DUR | 3sPOSS-uphill | 3s(>3)-live | the-sun |
| He thought, "The sun is just uphill from here." |
| [4] | xás | u-xú-tih | vaa | tá | káan | ú-krii | pa-kúusrah |
| then | 3s(>3)-think-DUR | so | PERF | there | 3s(>3)-live | the-sun |
| He thought, "The sun's right there." |
| [5] | p-oo-kfúkuvraa | yánava | ithyáruk | xás | t-u-váruprav | pa-kúusrah |
| NOMZ-3s(>3)-climb.over | visible | across | then | PERF-3s(>3)-come.out | the-sun |
| When he climbed up over (the ridge), he saw the sun was rising across (above the next ridge). |
| [6] | chavúra | pu-mah-ára | hôoy | p-oo-'aramsîipriv-tih |
| finally | NEG-see-NEG | where | NOMZ-3s(>3)-start.out-DUR |
| In the end he didn't find where it came from. |
| [7] | víri-va | pihnêefich | u-kúpha-anik |
| so-INDEF | coyote | 3s(>3)-do-ANC |
| Coyote did that. |