embedded constituent to a containing constituent. If the sentence had
been *Everyone_i thinks Bill said he_i left*, there would be an
occurrence of *g* in the most deeply embedded clause (*he left*), and
-another occurrence of (a variant of) *g* in the next most deeply
-embedded clause (*Bill said he left*).
+another occurrence of *g* in the next most deeply
+embedded constituent (*said he left*), and so on (see below).
Third, binding is accomplished by applying *z* not to the element that
will (in some pre-theoretic sense) bind the pronoun, here, *everyone*,