--- title: The Coyote and the Crows — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · full text with trees description: The Coyote and the Crows, «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: ONCE on a time many Káh-ahn lived in the edge of some woods. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/4/) [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 Coyote and the Crows # The Coyote and the Crows The Coyote and the Crows of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis: the whole text, 36 sentences and 444 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. ONCE on a time many Káh-ahn lived in the edge of some woods.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") A little out into the plain stood a very large tree, with much sand under it.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") One day a Coyote was passing, and heard the Crows singing and dancing under this tree, and came up to watch them.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") They were dancing in a circle, and each Crow had upon his back a large bag.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") “Crow-friends, what are you doing?” asked the Coyote, who was much interested.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, we are dancing with our mothers,” said the Crows.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") “How pretty\![7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") And will you let me dance, too?” asked the Coyote of the \_too-whit-lah-wid-deh\_ crow (captain of the dance).[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, yes,” replied the Crow.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") “Go and put your mother in a bag and come to the dance.”[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The Coyote went running home.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") There his old mother was sitting in the corner of the fireplace.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") The stupid Coyote picked up a stick and struck her on the head, and put her in a bag, and hurried back to the dance with her.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The Crows were dancing merrily, and singing: “\_Ai nana, que-ée-rah, que-ée-rah\_.”[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") (“Alas, Mama! you are shaking, you are shaking!”)[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The Coyote joined the dance, with the bag on his back, and sang as the Crows did:[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") “\_Ai nana, que-ée-rah, que-ée-rah\_.”[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") \[14\][18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") \[14\] \_Ai nana\_ is an exclamation always used by mourners.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") But at last the Crows burst out laughing, and said, “What do you bring in your bag?”[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") “My mother, as you told me,” replied the Coyote, showing them.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the Crows emptied their bags, which were filled with nothing but sand, and flew up into the tree, laughing.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") The Coyote then saw that they had played him a trick, and started home, crying “\_Ai nana\![23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") \_” When he got home he took his mother from the bag and tried to set her up in the chimney-corner, always crying, “\_Ai nana\_, why don’t you sit up as before?”[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") But she could not, for she was dead.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") When he found that she could not sit up any more, he vowed to follow the Crows and eat them all the rest of his life; and from that day to this he has been hunting them, and they are always at war.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") As Desiderio concludes, the old men hitch their blankets around their shoulders.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") “No more stories to-night?”[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") I ask; and Lorenso says:[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") “\_In-dáh\_ (no).[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Now it is to go to bed.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Tóo-kwai\_ (come),” to the boys.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") “Good night, friends.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Another time, perhaps.”[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") And we file out through the low door into the starry night.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") III[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [The Antelope Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/) - next →: [The War-dance of the Mice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/5/) - ↑ back to [The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/)