--- title: I think, however that the stone is merely the symbol of the everlast… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:21:102 # text = 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. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 4 however however ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 merely merely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 symbol symbol NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 everlasting everlasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 advmod _ _ 17 pervading pervade VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Ta Ta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ku ku X FW Foreign=Yes 21 dep _ _ 24 Wa Wa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 kan kan X FW Foreign=Yes 24 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 27 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 essence essence NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 pervading pervade VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 38 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 animate animate VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 inanimate inanimate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/21/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/21/103/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/21/)