I was recreating this search in Logos 6: https://blog.logos.com/2006/07/syntax_talking_animals_in_the/
It has a final form of
In rebuilding it in L6, I couldn't figure out how to get the "any descendent" part and am lacking the "distributive subject". My results are on occurrence less than the original. How do I fix it?
I couldn't figure out how to get the "any descendent" part
You've done that with "Matching skips levels" on the Segment i.e. skips descendants
and am lacking the "distributive subject".
It appears to have a grammatical meaning so could have been absorbed into Subject. I've no idea about "Janus" subject-complement!
Noticed blog results may have some false positives; created a syntax search that has nine results of animals "talking":
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