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# Killing the Old People.

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Killing the Old People. of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 16 sentences and 278 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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Told by John York.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics")

In the days gone by when an old man or woman got helpless they used to be killed outright.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics")

One time while two families, one of which had an old woman, were out camping, they decided to kill the old woman.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") They told her that they were going to move to some other place.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") They took her by the hand and led her to the bush some distance away where they stopped in a lonely place and told her to sit there till they got ready to build a camp.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Instead of making a camp they went back home and left her to die.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") The old woman was left on a river bank, and it happened that one of the boys was out hunting that way and when he was coming back home he saw his grandmother sitting by the river side.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") He wondered how she got there, but told her to get in the canoe and took her back to camp.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") He left her near the camp telling her to come in after dark.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter then went into the camp and after a while the old woman came in.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Everybody sat still, they did not know what to say, as they had thought that she would have died that night out on the river bank.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") She never told how she came back, neither did her grandson, so it was never known to the rest.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") The people quit killing the old people from that time.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") They never did it again.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indians used to do this; when people got too old they were killed to be got out of the way.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics")

NO. 21.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics")

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