Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 102

I think, however that the stone is merely the symbol of the everlasting, all pervading, invisible _Ta-ku Wa-kan_--the essence of all life,--pervading all nature, animate and inanimate.

Who acts: I, stone · What happens: think, be, pervade, animate · To what, where: symbol, Ta, nature

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 symbol	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	11 symbol	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 symbol	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 symbol	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 symbol	cop
9	merely	merely	ADV	_	11 symbol	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 symbol	det
11	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 everlasting	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 everlasting	det
14	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 symbol	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pervading	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 pervading	advmod
17	pervading	pervade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 symbol	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 invisible	punct
19	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pervading	conj
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Ta	punct
21	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 pervading	obj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 ku	punct
23	ku	ku	X	Foreign=Yes	21 Ta	dep
24	Wa	Wa	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 ku	nmod:unmarked
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Wa	punct
26	kan	kan	X	Foreign=Yes	24 Wa	dep
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Ta	punct
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 essence	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 essence	det
30	essence	essence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Ta	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 life	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 life	det
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 essence	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pervading	punct
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 pervading	punct
36	pervading	pervade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 Ta	conj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 nature	det
38	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pervading	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 animate	punct
40	animate	animate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 Ta	parataxis
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 inanimate	cc
42	inanimate	inanimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 animate	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the stone	the symbol	of the everlasting; however, merely property	tree rules
3	pervade	gerund	the stone not said here	Ta and the essence of all life		tree rules
4	pervade	gerund	the stone not said here	all nature		tree rules
5	animate	infinitive				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

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.

Text: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 102