ANALYSIS OF THE NIMKAN "KUA NYAN CHIVKACHAAN"

  A child and a bird

In the morning, the child woke up. I heard a bird chirping in a thicket of tallow.
-Чибартан – чи, чи, чи.

  -Chibartan – chi, chi, chi. The child rubs his eyes from sleep, woke up, yawned, stretched, turned back and forth.

  Then I jumped up and went outside for the morning toilet. And I heard the chirping of a bird in the thicket of tallow. I ran there, suddenly a bird flew out in front, sat on a tallow and said:

  - Chip! – turning back and forth, he turns his head and looks.
The child began to creep up to catch the bird with his hands, stretching his arms forward.

  And why should a bird be caught, succumb to it. She took off and flew to another twig and chirped again.
The child looks – he can't get it in any way, no matter how he sneaks up, he won't catch it in any way.

  Then the child speaks, looking at the bird:

  - Little bird, let's go over the log across the river! The bird replied, "I'll fall into the water."
The boy said, "You can hold on to a twig."

  I'll hurt my hand.

  You'll put on your sister's mittens.

  H - The mitten will tear.

  You'll sew it up with your sister's needle.

  H - The tip of the needle will break

  You can sharpen your brother with a bar.

  H - The brother's bar will become smooth.

  W-Where is that bar?

  They left it there, put it in the warehouse.

  W-Where is that warehouse?

  That warehouse burned down in a fire.

  W-Where is that fire?

  The rain put out that fire.

  Where is that rain?

  The cedar tree drank that rain.

  Where is that cedar tree?

  That cedar tree sits on top of a dead tree and looks at all sides. – the bird said so, flew to another reed and sat down.
The child immediately went and caught the bird. He caught it and began to pluck the feathers. The bird asked, "Why does my back hurt?"

  K - plucking the feathers.
The bird asked, "Why is my stomach stinging?"

  K – Plucking your feathers.
Then the boy lit a fire and started roasting the bird.

  Wh- Why is my ass hurt?

  K - Pierced with a sharp needle. Then he began to roast on the flame of the fire.

  W - Why did my breasts get hot?

  K -I'm frying.

  H - Why is half of the side hot?

  He turned his back on me.

  W - Why did the other side get hot?

  K - Turned the other side.

  Wh-What's with the crunch?

  I'm chewing!

  W - Why did it get dark?

  K - Swallowed it.

  W-Why did it get light?

  K - I pooped.

  Then the bird fell to the ground and flew like a live bird. People don't eat the bird now. [PMA]
"Kuӈa nyan chivkachaan" is a cumulative fairy tale

  The main characters of the fairy tale are a boy and a bird. There is also a dialogue between the characters in the fairy tale. Nimkan begins with the boy's awakening and daily activities in the morning. In nimkan, the chain begins when the boy saw a bird and wanted to catch it. The chain of events is a dialogue between two characters, to illustrate with some examples: M: "Bird, let's go across the river on a log", P: "I'll fall into the water." During the dialogue, the boy caught a bird and began to prepare to eat it. The finale of the nimkan is that the bird stayed alive and flew away. People don't eat the bird anymore.