--- title: Origin of Birds. — Ojibwa myths and tales · full text with trees description: Origin of Birds., «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/pg76755/26/) [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/) / Origin of Birds. # Origin of Birds. Origin of Birds. of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 7 sentences and 117 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 a man shot another with his bow and arrow for stealing his wife.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He watched the actions of his wife and this man and saw them sleeping together in a bush, when he shot them with his arrows and killed them both.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") He went to work and cut up about half the man into little bits and threw these up in the air.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") The pieces of meat did not fall back again, but became different birds, such as the blue jay, robins and others.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") He cut some more pieces a little bigger and threw these up in the air too, when they became gulls, cranes and such-like birds.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") NO. 27.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/25/) - next →: [The People Who Became Serpents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/27/) - ↑ back to [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/)