I will describe how I lived thinking back from my old age till my youth, how our mother earth is, and what is going on both here and in the sky.

Comment:
The word monut here functions as a complementizer.

We had just started school, and were in the first or second grade.

We prepared well for the first class and were going to ask questions, waiting to hear what the teachers would say.

We had come from far away.

Comment:
Children used to study in boarding schools, to which they were usually brought from remote settlements.

We were simply afraid of all people.

We were afraid of our teachers as well, thinking what they would ask us and how we would answer.

Our teacher came.

She knew all our relatives.

After we came to school we were asked: "Did you have food or not? Do you get clothes or not?"

Comment:
The word Skola remains uninflected.

We all said: "We have eaten in the canteen of the boarding school.

We were given bed linen.

Then they gave us hats, shoes, clothes, and all sorts of shirts.

Comment:
The syntax is unclear.

They gave us warm shoes.

Comment:
The adverbial form pugo:n functions as an attributive modifier.

We liked them very much.

We were very happy that they were such good shoes.

Comment:
The word monut functions as a complementizer.

After school, when the classes finished, we all gathered to play.

Comment:
The verb kis'ime: is uninflected.

Sometimes we fished with fishing rods. We were sitting fishing with fishing rods. "Udochka" is fishing rod in Russian.

Once when we finished playing we got together and hid in our playing place. It was the territory near the school, the club, and the shop.

Comment:
The verb ta:tme: is uninflected.

It was our playing territory.

They called it our home.

Other children had another territory and did not let us play there.

Comment:
The syntactic function of the phrase ta: je:n gran'ican'd'E is peculiar. It can be analyzed either as a postnominal modifier or as a nominalized phrase without a nominalizing marker.

We didn't let them play with us.

Once we were sitting and telling different stories.

A friend of us called Senja spoke.

Comment:
The word monut is here a postposition.

He told us the following.

He said: "My father has travelled to the Moon together with the people from an expedition.

It's very nice there, everything is nice and beautiful."

Then he said that there were a lot of candies on the Moon.

I remember that he mentioned lollipops.

They were lying like pebbles in piles, small ones and big ones.

We asked Senja: "How did they get there?"

He said: "They crossed the river in a boat in which these people had come with an expedition. Apparently it was a motor boat.

They then went up to the Moon along the Moon road."

He showed us that the surface of the water was shining from the light of the Moon.

He said: "This is the Moon road."

We looked at the water in surprise and said: "We didn't know that."

We started thinking how we could get to that place where there were so many candies.

Comment:
The verb ta:tme: is uninflected.

We all wanted to go, so that we could reach the Moon, walk there a little, and return back.

We would see what nice things were there, we would see everything.

Comment:
The word monut functions as a complementizer.

But we didn't know how we would come back and what would happen,

Once we decided that we would go up to the Moon.

So we thought.

We could not reach it in any way in a boat, because the water ends and turns into the sky.

So we thought.

You can't fly to the Moon from the riverbank, so a different way of traveling came to our mind.

Sometimes the Moon becomes bigger and comes closer to us.

We thought that then we could reach it in a boat.

Comment:
The word qodime: is uninflected. The form l'EltEj is unclear.

We thought how we would know that it was close.

One of us, a friend of ours, Semen, said: "We should make a bow and arrows.

Comment:
LOkil is a blunt arrow without a head used as a children's toy.

Then we will know about the Moon."

We decided that when the Moon becomes bigger and comes closer we would shoot at it.

When it comes close, we would shoot arrows.

Comment:
In this sentence the native type of adverbial clause based on a non-finite converbial form is combined with a complementizer 'when', apparently due to the influence of Russian syntax.

Then we would sit in a boat and go to the Moon.

We would come to the Moon and climb it.

We thought that it was similar to the other side of the river.

So we would reach it, climb it, walk there a little, and come back.

We would see what was there and take everything we needed.

The next day we made arrows and bow and started watching the Moon.

Once there were three of us, our other friends left.

Some were called by their parents, others left because they wanted to sleep.

But the three of us started watching, to see when the Moon would come closer.

Comment:
The word monut functions as a complementizer.

That Senja, who told how his father had traveled there, was also with us.

Comment:
The word monut functions as a complementizer. Senja and Semen are variations of the same Russian name.

He showed us some pebbles.

They were pebbles similar to those that lie here on the riverbank, but he said that his father had brought them from the Moon.

Those pebbles were in fact some people's bullets.

Comment:
The word qodime: is uninflected.

When people shoot guns, fire comes out.

Comment:
In the form qo:Ga:la:nuj the first Inchoative suffix has a perfective meaning.

We all said: "Oh!"

We wanted to see everything, take them and bring them here.

The three of us sat and watched the river.

We were looking at the Moon all the time.

We were waiting to see when the Moon would come closer to us from behind the trees.

That Senja who told us a story spoke.

Comment:
The word n'i:d'i:l is not inflected for case.

"The Moon walks along the lakes, hills, and forests.

It collects flying birds, fishes, berries, all sort of nice shirts, trousers with pockets, candies, and biscuits.

Comment:
By "trousers with pockets" the narrator means Russian trousers made of fabric. Yukaghir trousers o: were made of leather and had no pockets.

It divides all this between the people who reach it from here and gives it to them."

We wanted even more to go quickly to the Moon.

Comment:
The word monut functions as a complementizer.

There was a boat with the oars nearby.

Everything was there, a fishing boat and two oars for us to go.

So our Moon appeared.

It appeared on top of a larch tree.

It was incredibly red and big.

Comment:
The word kejlEn'i is pronounced as kejlEn.

Then Senja said to us: "Let's go quickly to the boat.

Then we will come closer to the Moon."

We, two friends, sat on the sides with the oars, while Senya sat down to steer the wheel.

He ordered us: "Row more quickly and strongly."

It was completely dark, nothing could be seen.

While we rowed Semen was looking forward. He took the arrows and the bow.

We watched him.

He shot without saying anything to us.

He shot several times and frightened me a lot.

From fear I felt bad in my back.

My heart was beating hard and my ears were listening. I didn't know what was going to happen.

Comment:
It is unclear why the word 'ear' is inflected for the 3rd person.

We couldn't see anything sitting at the back.

Comment:
The form modo: functions as a secondary predicate.

Suddenly Semen said: "It seems that the Moon is coming to us.

Comment:
Although the word mOdis' literally means 'is heard', it can have a more general evidential meaning not necessarily related to audio perception.

Shoot!" he said to us.

We turned there and saw the Moon near the place where Semen was shooting.

The Moon appeared from behind the tree. One couldn't see the whole of it, but the top appeared.

We looked there and thought that there were no arrows in the Moon.

Comment:
The syntactic function of the predicative form is unclear.

While we watched, we heard as if something had fallen down and was approaching us.

Comment:
On the word mOdis' see (50-94).

The Moon road appeared on the water. It was completely white. I was very much afraid that we would make the Moon drown and it would die.

Comment:
The word monut functions as a complementizer.

I shot once.

That friend of mine, Senja, shouted that my arrow had stuck into the Moon.

I have never been as scared as that.

They shot with my arrows.

If I were in another place I woudn't have given them my arrows because I was afraid that the Moon would fall down and something bad would happen.

We heard people shouting and calling to us from our riverbank.

"Where have you gone?

Come back!"

Then we got afraid that they would whip us very much.

Comment:
The word monut functions as a complementizer. It is unclear why the verb iNi:Na: is in the 3PL.