--- title: The Tailless Sturgeon. — Ojibwa myths and tales · full text with trees description: The Tailless Sturgeon., «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Told by John York. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/24/) [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 Tailless Sturgeon. # The Tailless Sturgeon. The Tailless Sturgeon. of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 11 sentences and 153 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. Told by John York.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") One time there was a family camping at Sturgeon Lake (Victoria County).[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") One day the old man went out to fish through the ice, and while fishing he saw a queer-looking fish.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") He speared it and killed it, then took it home and cooked it; all the family ate of it, and in a very short time they all took sick and died.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") These sturgeon from Sturgeon Lake are descended from a serpent which was cut in two a long time ago, but lived and bred young ones with no tails.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Note.—John York said he used to camp at Sturgeon Lake years ago.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") Had heard these sturgeon jumping at night, but had never caught any.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Sturgeon Lake has no sturgeon.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") The name may be given to it from its shape.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") There are no sturgeon in this chain of lakes, now known as the Kawartha Lakes.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") NO. 25.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/23/) - next →: [Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/25/) - ↑ back to [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/)