Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic.
Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic. of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 16 sentences and 267 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
Told by Peter York.1
A long time ago the Rat had the Beaver’s tail, and the Beaver the Rat’s tail.2 The Rat wanted to trade tails, very badly, but the Beaver didn’t care enough about trading, but at last he traded.3 Then the Beaver when he got his present tail liked it very much for he found that he could swim faster, but the Rat didn’t like it, because he had to swim slower, so he begged the Beaver to trade back, but the Beaver would not trade; so the Rat cried and cried till his eyes got small, and this is the reason that the Rat has small eyes and a small tail.4
(Rat here means the Muskrat.)5
NO. 6.6
THE BEAR, THE WILD CAT AND THE BIG STURGEON—MUH KWAH, PEZHEW AND KITCHÉ NŬH MAH.7
Told by Peter York.8
Near the mouth of the Nottawasaga River there are rapids.9 The bear was fishing there one day.10 He was catching sturgeon in his paws and throwing them over his shoulder on to the bank.11 By the time when he had enough he quit fishing and started to carry the sturgeon back into the woods from the pile he had thrown them into.12 The wild cat (lynx) was watching the bear whilst the bear was fishing.13 When the bear went away, the wild cat went to fish at the same place.14 He caught a very big sturgeon, but on account of his crooked claws, could not let go, and the sturgeon swam out to deep water and drowned the wild cat.15
NO. 7.16
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