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title: It behooves us to give the closest possible attention to all the eve… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It behooves us to give the closest possible attention to all the events of the present and to record them faithfully, so as to render to the scientific historian of the future a consecutive account of all the details which will lead up to some great crisis in the days to come. Who acts: lava, detail
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 34

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It behooves us to give the closest possible attention to all the events of the present and to record them faithfully, so as to render to the scientific historian of the future a consecutive account of all the details which will lead up to some great crisis in the days to come.

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**Who acts:** lava, details · **What happens:** behoove, give, record, render, lead up, come · **To what, where:** us, closest possible attention, events, scientific historian, details

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lava, details), 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:pg66516:1:34
# text = It behooves us to give the closest possible attention to all the events of the present and to record them faithfully, so as to render to the scientific historian of the future a consecutive account of all the details which will lead up to some great crisis in the days to come.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	behooves	behoove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
8	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	record	record	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	historian	historian	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	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	consecutive	consecutive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	48	det	_	_
47	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behoove** | present | lava | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | lava *not said here* | the closest possible attention | all events of the present |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to event=Recipient |
| 3 | **record** | to-infinitive | lava *not said here* | events *= event* |  |  |  | faithfully *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **render** | to-infinitive | lava *not said here* |  | the scientific historian of the future and a consecutive account of all details |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to historian=Recipient |
| 5 | **lead up** | future | all details |  |  |  | day | to some great crisis | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to crisis=Patient |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | all details *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **account** |  |  | all details |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication 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:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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