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title: It is in an intangible, mysterious something of which they are only… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawa
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 105

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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.

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

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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 (faith, such measure), 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:pg8122:21:105
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	intangible	intangible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	embodiment	embodiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	accord	accord	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	worshipper	worshipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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