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description: 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. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Ti
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 14

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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.

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

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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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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66509:10:14
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
17	trailing	trail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dipper	dipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
26	represent	represent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
34	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | the four main stars of the group | the body of the animal |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme |
| 2 | **trail behind** | gerund | the stars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **represent** | present | the stars | the fisher's tail |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tail=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | gerund | the bend *not said here* | the bent tail of the animal |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tail=Recipient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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