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title: For even the commonest sticks and stones have a spiritual essence wh… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 111

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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."\]

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**Who acts:** commonest sticks, pervading mysterious power · **What happens:** have, reverence, pervade, fill, manifest · **To what, where:** spiritual essence, universe, pervading mysterious power

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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 (commonest sticks, pervading mysterious power), 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:pg8122:21:111
# text = 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."]
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	commonest	common	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	essence	essence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	reverenced	reverence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	manifestation	manifestation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	pervading	pervade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
24	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	universe	universe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	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 | **have** | present | the commonest sticks and stones | a spiritual essence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent essence=Patient |
| 2 | **reverence** | must · passive |  | a spiritual essence |  |  |  | as a manifestation of the pervading mysterious power | tree rules |
| 3 | **pervade** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fill** | present | the pervading mysterious power | the universe |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent universe=Patient |
| 5 | **manifest** |  |  | the pervading mysterious power |  |  |  |  | nom manifestation «event 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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