Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 105

It is in an intangible, mysterious something of which they are only the embodiment, and that in such measure and degree as may accord with the individual fancy of the worshipper.

Who acts: faith, such measure · What happens: be, accord, fancy · To what, where: something, embodiment, worshipper

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 (faith, such measure), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 something	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 something	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	8 something	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 something	det
5	intangible	intangible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 intangible	punct
7	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 embodiment	nsubj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 embodiment	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 embodiment	cop
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 embodiment	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 embodiment	det
15	embodiment	embodiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 something	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 accord	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 accord	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 accord	mark
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 measure	case
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 measure	amod
21	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 accord	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 degree	cc
23	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 measure	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	21 measure	case
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 accord	aux
26	accord	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 embodiment	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 fancy	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fancy	det
29	individual	individual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fancy	amod
30	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 accord	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 worshipper	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 worshipper	det
33	worshipper	worshipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fancy	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	faith		something		tree rules
2	is a	present		the embodiment		which nsubj; gods = god nsubj	tree rules
3	accord	may	such measure and degree			with the individual fancy of the worshipper	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	fancy			the worshipper			nom fancy «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 105

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 105