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title: This god dwells in stone or rocks and is they say, the _oldest god o… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: This god dwells in stone or rocks and is they say, the _oldest god of all_--he is grandfather of all living things. Who acts: god, gods, hé. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 101

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This god dwells in stone or rocks and is they say, the \_oldest god of all\_--he is grandfather of all living things.

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**Who acts:** god, gods, hé · **What happens:** dwell, be, live · **To what, where:** stone, grandfather

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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 (god, gods, hé), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:21:101
# text = This god dwells in stone or rocks and is they say, the _oldest god of all_--he is grandfather of all living things.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
26	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | present | this god |  |  | stone or rocks |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stone=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | gods *= god* |  |  |  |  | the oldest god of all and grandfather *obl*; say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | hé | grandfather |  |  |  | of all living things | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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