--- title: The Feathered Barbers — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · full text with trees description: The Feathered Barbers, «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: THE coyote, one summer day, having taken a bath in the river, lay down in the hot sand to dry --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / The Feathered Barbers # The Feathered Barbers The Feathered Barbers of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis: the whole text, 33 sentences and 469 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. THE coyote, one summer day, having taken a bath in the river, lay down in the hot sand to dry himself.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") While he was sleeping there, a crowd of Quails came along; and seeing that he was asleep, they said:[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") “Huh\![3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Here is that foolish Too-wháy-deh.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Let us give him a trick!”[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") So they cut off all his hair, which makes one to be laughed at, and ran away.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") When the Coyote woke up he was ashamed, and wished to punish those who had made him \_pelado\_; and he ran around to see if he could find the tracks of an enemy.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") There were only the tracks of the Quails, so he knew they had done it.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Very angry, he followed the trail until it went into a large hole.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") He went all around to see if they had come out; but there were no other tracks, so he went in.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") First the hole was big, but then it grew small, and he had to dig.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") When he had dug a long time, he caught a Quail, and he said:[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") “Ho, Ch’um-níd-deh\![13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") It is you that cut my hair and left me a laughed-at.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") But I am going to eat you this very now!”[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") “No, friend Too-wháy-deh, it was another who did it.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") You will find him farther in, with the scissors\[62\] still in his hand.”[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") \[62\] This indicates that the tale is comparatively modern.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Coyote let that Quail go, and dug and dug till he caught another.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") But that one said the same thing; and Too-wháy-deh let him go, and dug after the next one.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") So it was, until he had let them all go, one by one; and when he came to the very end of the hole, there were no more.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") With this, the Coyote was very angry, and ran out of the hole, promising to catch and eat them all.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") As he came out he met the Cotton-tail, and cried with a fierce face:[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") “Hear, you Pee-oo-ée-deh\![24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") If you don’t catch me the Ch’úm-nin that cut my hair, I’ll eat \_you\_!”[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, I can catch them, friend Coyote,” said the Rabbit.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") “See, here is their trail!”[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") When they had followed the trail a long way, they saw the birds sitting and laughing under a bush.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now you wait here while I go and catch them,” said Pee-oo-ée-deh.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Coyote sat down to rest.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as the Rabbit was near them, the Quails flew a little way, and he kept running after them.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") But as soon as they were over a little hill, he turned aside and ran home, and the Coyote never knew if the Quails were caught or not.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") XVII[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Honest Big-ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/17/) - next →: [The Accursed Lake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/19/) - ↑ back to [The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/)