--- title: The Social Problem. — Ojibwa myths and tales · full text with trees description: The Social Problem., «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Told by Peter York. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/) / The Social Problem. # The Social Problem. The Social Problem. of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 16 sentences and 349 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](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Once a small party left the Rama Reserve for the purpose of going on a hunt up the Gull River waters.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") Amongst this party was a bad man who had left his wife on the Reserve and had taken another woman with him, which was a very bad thing to do.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") After being on the hunt for some time this man died and was prepared for burial, and a grave was dug.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") He was left in a place just outside the camp for three days before burial.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") One of the children of the camp who happened to go and look at the body, came back and said that clothes were pushed off the body’s face and breast, so the older people went to see.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") They found this was so and the man coming to life.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") He came to life and said that he had been in heaven and was sorry for what he had done by leaving his wife on the Reserve, etc., but that he knew he was going to die in exactly a month from that day at midday, and would never see Rama again.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") After a short while the party moved camp on their homeward journey, and at Balsam Lake when the month was just about to be up the man said that he was going to die and knew he could not stop it.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") So he made a little camp and went in there.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") He was all right the night before and also on the morning of the last day, but before noon he said his time was near and began to act terribly crazy-like.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") His eyes stuck out and he chewed his tongue and rolled around his camp in terrible agony.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") He acted so strangely and shook his camp so much that he so frightened the others that they were afraid to go near him and so left him alone to die.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") His actions continued till noon when the man died in horrible pain.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Thus was he punished for leaving his wife and taking another woman.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") NO. 15.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Rama Witches. (no. 2.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/13/) - next →: [Wintigoes (giants).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/15/) - ↑ back to [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/)