Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 111
For even the commonest sticks and stones have a spiritual essence which must be reverenced as a manifestation of the all-pervading mysterious power that fills the the universe."]
Who acts: commonest sticks, pervading mysterious power · What happens: have, reverence, pervade, fill, manifest · To what, where: spiritual essence, universe, pervading mysterious power
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 (commonest sticks, pervading mysterious power), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 sticks | case |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 sticks | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sticks | det |
| 4 | commonest | common | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 sticks | amod |
| 5 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stones | cc |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sticks | conj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 essence | det |
| 10 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 essence | amod |
| 11 | essence | essence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 reverenced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 reverenced | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 reverenced | aux:pass |
| 15 | reverenced | reverence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 essence | acl:relcl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 manifestation | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 manifestation | det |
| 18 | manifestation | manifestation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reverenced | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 power | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 power | det |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 power | nsubj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 all | punct |
| 23 | pervading | pervade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 power | amod |
| 24 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 power | amod |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 manifestation | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 fills | nsubj |
| 27 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 power | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 universe | det |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 universe | det |
| 30 | universe | universe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fills | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 33 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the commonest sticks and stones | a spiritual essence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent essence=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reverence | must · passive | a spiritual essence | as a manifestation of the pervading mysterious power | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pervade | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | fill | present | the pervading mysterious power | the universe | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent universe=Patient | ||||
| 5 | manifest | the pervading mysterious power | nom manifestation «event 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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