--- title: Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.) — Ojibwa myths and tales · full text with trees description: Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.), «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/pg76755/2/) [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/) / Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no.… # Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.) Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.) of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 12 sentences and 148 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") A long time ago Nanabush when out hunting ducks came to a lake.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He saw a nice bay, round (curved) all along to the end which we all know bays are not straight.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") And in this bay there were a lot of ducks sitting along the shore, and Nanabush would like to kill them all with one shot.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") He did not know how to do it.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") He thought that he must get them all.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") He looked at his gun which was straight, and he thought if he could bend his gun he might get them all.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") He went to work and bent his gun.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") He got close and made a good aim, pulled the trigger and “Bang.”[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") When the smoke cleared away there were no ducks to be seen dead or alive.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Nanabush got so mad (angry) that he made another plan.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") NO. 2.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Ojibwa Myths and Tales.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/1/) - next →: [Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 2.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/3/) - ↑ back to [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/)