Once I was fishing with a fishing rod on the river.

There were no people around me.

There were graylings, Amur ides, and all sorts of small fish.

There are a lot of small young fish in that place, very many.

Comment:
The word kuropa: is not a Yukaghir word. It denotes some kind of fish.

That place is very deep.

Comment:
The word titime: is uninflected.

These young fish swam almost on the surface of the water.

Sometimes I could see them going deep down chasing each other.

They disappeared and came back again. So they moved and played.

I saw that other fish appeared in that very deep place.

Comment:
The word si:lE, which comes from the Russian 'strength', here functions in the meaning 'very'.

Sometimes a pike was seen, sometimes a minnow, a peled, a lenok or another fish.

I could also see very big Amur ides.

And all sorts of graylings, everything.

These fish were swimming like normal fish.

Wonderful things swam between them.

Small young fish moved between large fish, along their sides, above them and beneath them.

Comment:
The word titime: is uninflected.

Large fish moved very cleverly and small ones as well.

I was standing watching them.

I saw that big fish and small young fish were moving together.

Sometimes they went up and sometimes they moved down.

Once I saw something one and a half or two meters long swimming at the bottom on the water, in the deep place. It looked similar to another sort of fish.

Comment:
On katalka see (24-64). This sentence demonstrates an unusual feature: the Action Nominal affix -l after the Locative case marker.

I saw that it had scales all long. It was going to swim back but apparently something made it turn in the water.

Comment:
Pe:ri:nZa:n'EjbEn 'the one with fins' is a euphemistic name for any kind of fish.

Then I saw well that it swam with its stomach up like a burbote. It was very surprising to see it swimming there.

Its stomach was white.

I saw that young fish on the surface came closer directly to its mouth.

They were swimming.

I saw that those young fish came directly to its chest.

Then it swam on its stomach and I could see its back. I saw that it was a burbot. It was not a big burbot but a middle-sized one.

Those small fish swam along its stomach and came close to its nose.

I saw that the small fish were hardly moving. They were busy playing.

Comment:
The Instrumental form is unclear.

The burbot opened its mouth and those young fish suddenly disappeared inside it.

It closed its mouth again.

I don't know how many fish it swallowed.

When it swallowed those fish, the others escaped.

When it swallowed them, the others swam closer to my boat to escape from it. They were shining in the water.

Then two minutes later it was the same. Again there were young fish swimming there as before.

Comment:
The word ta:tme: is uninflected. The syntactic function of the word tude is unclear.

You see what this burbot is.

Comment:
The word qodime: is uninflected.

This burbot swims between fish like a snag.

It swims without doing anything and see how many young fish it eats.

You see, we always say between us when we see it: "Look how a burbote eats fish."

We talk and say: "We too catch fish like this burbot but with a fishing rod or a net.

Comment:
On the word nug- in the meaning 'kill' see (36-13).

When it looks at us it probably says: "They ate all my fish.

I will teach you well."

It shouldn't let us do this.

That's what is needed.

Comment:
The final predicate lacks the Predicative marker.

This is the end.