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# Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.)

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Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.) of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 18 sentences and 325 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 Peter York.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics")

The Mohawks were so bad that they used to kill for nothing.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") One time there were three Ojibwa brothers, and one day the Mohawks met one of the brothers and killed him.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") They hid him in the bush and took his scalp home.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") When the other two came to know that their brother had been killed they got mad (angry) and both got ready with war clubs and lots of shot and powder.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") When they got to the Mohawk village their enemies were waiting for them to come.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") These brothers did all they could; they killed about three to five hundred of the Mohawks.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") While the fight was going on, one of the two Ojibwas got shot in the leg, and the leg was broken below the knee, but he fought on till he got tired and sick.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well,” he said to his brother, “we are going to get beaten.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") I will die in their hands, you run away and tell our people what has happened.”[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The other brother started back home and left his brother to be killed, who was killed some time later.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") The one that got home told all the people what had happened.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Everybody got ready to go down and kill all the Mohawks.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") When they got to the place where the fight was they saw the dead man sitting up dressed in some very nice things, such as buckskin clothing, but his scalp was taken.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics")

When the Ojibwas got to the Mohawk village their captain gave a big yell to show the Mohawks that there was going to be a fight, and started to kill everyone who was in the village.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") When they got through they searched the place for the scalp that was taken from the brother and when they found it they burnt the village and started back home.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") When they got there they had a big time over the recovered scalp.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics")

NO. 22.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics")

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