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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

caseadvmoddetamodnsubjccconjdetamodobjnsubj:passauxaux:passacl:relclcasedetoblcasedetnsubjpunctamodamodnmodnsubjacl:relcldetdetobjpunctpunctpunctrootForADPevenADVtheDETcommonestADJsticksNOUNandCCONJstonesNOUNhaveVERBaDETspiritualADJessenceNOUNwhichPRONmustAUXbeAUXreverencedVERBasADPaDETmanifestationNOUNofADPtheDETallDET-PUNCTpervadingVERBmysteriousADJpowerNOUNthatPRONfillsVERBtheDETtheDETuniverseNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT]PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ForforADP_5 stickscase
2evenevenADV_5 sticksadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 sticksdet
4commonestcommonADJDegree=Sup5 sticksamod
5sticksstickNOUNNumber=Plur8 havensubj
6andandCCONJ_7 stonescc
7stonesstoneNOUNNumber=Plur5 sticksconj
8havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 essencedet
10spiritualspiritualADJDegree=Pos11 essenceamod
11essenceessenceNOUNNumber=Sing8 haveobj
12whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel15 reverencednsubj:pass
13mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin15 reverencedaux
14bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf15 reverencedaux:pass
15reverencedreverenceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 essenceacl:relcl
16asasADP_18 manifestationcase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 manifestationdet
18manifestationmanifestationNOUNNumber=Sing15 reverencedobl
19ofofADP_25 powercase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 powerdet
21allallDETPronType=Tot25 powernsubj
22--PUNCT_21 allpunct
23pervadingpervadeVERBVerbForm=Ger25 poweramod
24mysteriousmysteriousADJDegree=Pos25 poweramod
25powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing18 manifestationnmod
26thatthatPRONPronType=Rel27 fillsnsubj
27fillsfillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 poweracl:relcl
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 universedet
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 universedet
30universeuniverseNOUNNumber=Sing27 fillsobj
31..PUNCT_8 havepunct
32""PUNCT_8 havepunct
33]]PUNCT_8 havepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentthe commonest sticks and stonesa spiritual essencevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent essence=Patient
2reverencemust · passivea spiritual essenceas a manifestation of the pervading mysterious powertree rules
3pervadegerundtree rules
4fillpresentthe pervading mysterious powerthe universevn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent universe=Patient
5manifestthe pervading mysterious powernom 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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