--- title: Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic. — Ojibwa myths and tales · full text with trees description: Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., «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/pg76755/6/) [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/) / Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-m… # Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic. Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic. of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 16 sentences and 267 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 the Rat had the Beaver’s tail, and the Beaver the Rat’s tail.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") The Rat wanted to trade tails, very badly, but the Beaver didn’t care enough about trading, but at last he traded.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the Beaver when he got his present tail liked it very much for he found that he could swim faster, but the Rat didn’t like it, because he had to swim slower, so he begged the Beaver to trade back, but the Beaver would not trade; so the Rat cried and cried till his eyes got small, and this is the reason that the Rat has small eyes and a small tail.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") (Rat here means the Muskrat.)[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") NO. 6.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") THE BEAR, THE WILD CAT AND THE BIG STURGEON—MUH KWAH, PEZHEW AND KITCHÉ NŬH MAH.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Told by Peter York.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Near the mouth of the Nottawasaga River there are rapids.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") The bear was fishing there one day.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") He was catching sturgeon in his paws and throwing them over his shoulder on to the bank.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") By the time when he had enough he quit fishing and started to carry the sturgeon back into the woods from the pile he had thrown them into.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") The wild cat (lynx) was watching the bear whilst the bear was fishing.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") When the bear went away, the wild cat went to fish at the same place.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") He caught a very big sturgeon, but on account of his crooked claws, could not let go, and the sturgeon swam out to deep water and drowned the wild cat.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") NO. 7.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Thunderbirds. (no. 2.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/5/) - next →: [Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/7/) - ↑ back to [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/)