V. How the Woodchuck Helped Menabozho
V. How the Woodchuck Helped Menabozho of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 12 sentences and 151 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
(Chippewa, 1895)1
Menabozho watched for the water manitou, and he stood just like a stump of a tree.2 The bear which was watching for Menabozho did not see him.3 The mud turtle which was watching did not know that he was the stump, so they went to sleep; then Menabozho got back his wolfskin from under the manitou, and the manitou did not need it any more.4
All the other water manitous gave chase after Menabozho to avenge their brother.5 He called to a woodchuck to dig fast into a hill.6
Menabozho pulled into the hole all the dirt that the woodchuck threw out.7 The water manitous found no hole in the hill, and Menabozho got away.8
Menabozho gave the woodchuck long claws and soft hair.9 He told him that the corn is good.10 He called the woodchuck his brother because he helped to hide Menabozho from the water manitous.11
Ooranah.12
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