🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 14

The four main stars of the group form the body of the animal; the stars trailing behind (the handle of the dipper) represent the fisher’s tail, the bend showing the bent tail of the animal.

Who acts: four main stars, stars, bend · What happens: form, trail behind, represent, show · To what, where: body, tail, bent tail

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four main stars, stars, bend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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