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title: All life is _Wakan_; so also is everything which exhibits power, whe… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: All life is _Wakan_; so also is everything which exhibits power, whether in action as the winds and drifting clouds; or in passive endurance, as the boulder by the wayside. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 110

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All life is \_Wakan\_; so also is everything which exhibits power, whether in action as the winds and drifting clouds; or in passive endurance, as the boulder by the wayside.

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**What happens:** be, exhibit, drift · **To what, where:** everything, power, life

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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: 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:pg8122:21:110
# text = All life is _Wakan_; so also is everything which exhibits power, whether in action as the winds and drifting clouds; or in passive endurance, as the boulder by the wayside.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Wakan	Wakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	parataxis	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	exhibits	exhibit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	drifting	drift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	passive	passive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	endurance	endurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	boulder	boulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 a** | present |  | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exhibit** | present |  | power |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; action as the winds and drifting clouds or passive endurance and the boulder by the wayside *parataxis* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
| 3 | **drift** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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