Nettie Ruben: "The Adulterers Discovered" (1957)

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[1]	apsunmúnukich	ukitaxríharahitih
	racer.snake	was.being.unfaithful.to.his.wife

Western Yellow-Bellied Racer (a snake) was being unfaithful to his wife.

[2]	ith'aranihrôoha	xákaan	kun'ásimtih
	another's.wife	with.(one.person)	they.were.sleeping

He was sleeping with another's wife.

[3]	xás	tóo	piip	apsunmúnukich	vúra	púra kára	aapúnmeeshara
	then	he.had	say	racer.snake	Intensive	nobody	will.find.out

And Racer said, "Nobody will find out."

[4]	xás	kúkuum	vúra	imáan	tumúsar
	then	again	Intensive	tomorrow	he.went.to.see.her

So again the next day he went to see her.

[5]	pa'asiktávaan	káru	uum	tuvôonupuk
	the.woman	also	3.SG	she.went.out

The woman went out too.

[6]	yiimúsich	tóo	pmah	apsunmúnukich
	little.ways.off	she.had	see.again	racer.snake

She saw Racer a little ways off.

[7]	káan	tu'uum
	there	she.arrived

She arrived there.

[8]	púyava	patóo	kxáramha	pa'asiktávaan	tu'ípak
	you.see	when.it.had	be.night	the.woman	she.returned

And when it got dark, the woman returned home.

[9]	vúra	púra	húun	kupítihara
	Intensive	NEG	harmful	was.doing

(It was as if) she was doing no harm.

[10]	vúra	yáv	pa'asiktávaan
	Intensive	good	the.woman

She was a good woman.

[11]	káruma	uum	ukitaxríharahitih
	in.fact	3.SG	she.was.being.unfaithful

(But) the fact was, she was being unfaithful.

[12]	xás	pa'ávansa	vúra	uum	pu'aapúnmutihara
	then	the.man	Intensive	3.SG	he.didn't.know

And the man (her husband) didn't know.

[13]	xás	kári	kúkuum	vúra	imáan	tá	kunpithvuyrámeesh
	then	then	again	Intensive	tomorrow	PERF	they.were.going.to.meet

And again the next day they were going to meet.

[14]	púyava	imáan	tuvôonupuk	pa'asiktávaan
	you.see	tomorrow	she.went.out	the.woman

So the next day the woman went out.

[15]	yanavéekva	tu'áhooheen	apsunmúnukich
	one	he.had.arrived	racer.snake

She saw Racer coming.

[16]	kári	xás	ii	xás	upiip	vúra	ník	pukín'aapunmeeshap	panukitaxríharahitih
	then	then	oh!	then	he.said	Intensive	a.little	they.mustn't.know.about.us	that.we.are.being.unfaithful

Then (hearing someone coming) he said, "Oh, they mustn't know that we're being unfaithful!"

[17]	kári	xás	upiip	chími	na'íshunvi
	then	then	he.said	soon	bury.me!

And he said, "Bury me!"

[18]	kári	xás	páyuux	uxyátap
	then	then	the.dirt	she.covered.him.with

So she threw dirt on him.

[19]	u'íshunva
	she.buried.him

She buried him.

[20]	púxay	vúra	kín'aapunmeeshap
	not.yet	Intensive	they.were.to.knew

They were not to know.

[21]	kári	xás	pa'asiktávaan	tóo	pvâaram
	then	then	the.woman	she.had	go.back

Then the woman went back home.

[22]	kári	xás	apsunmúnukich	axmáy	uvôonuprav
	then	then	racer.snake	suddenly	he.crawled.out

And suddenly Racer crawled out (prematurely).

[23]	xás	kári	ee	kári	xás	kunpiip	uum	apsunmúnukich	tukitaxríharahitih
	then	then	oh!	then	then	they.said	3.SG	racer.snake	he.is.being.unfaithful

And (people) said, "Oh, Racer is being unfaithful!"

[24]	tá	kun'áapunma	pookitaxríharahitih
	PERF	they.found.out	that.he.was.being.unfaithful

They found out that he was being unfaithful.

[25]

kári

xás

apsunmúnukich

upiip

payaas'ára

u'iiníshrihaak

víri

pa'asiktávaan

vaa

ukupítihaak

ukitaxríharahitihaak

xáat

káru

uxúti

vúra

pu'aapúnmeeshap

víri

vaa

vúra

kun'áapunmeesh

then

then

racer.snake

he.said

when.humankind

it.comes.into.existence

so

when.a.woman

so

she.does

when.she.is.unfaithful

may

also

she.thinks

Intensive

they.won't.know

so

so

Intensive

they.will.find.out

Then Racer said, "When Mankind comes into existence, when a woman does this, when she is unfaithful, even though she thinks they won't find out, they will find out like this."