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title: It seems absolutely necessary to recognize the cracks in the floor o… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It seems absolutely necessary to recognize the cracks in the floor of the ocean through which the vast floods of lava were forced for the upbuilding of these islands. Who acts: It, lava. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Paci
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 13

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It seems absolutely necessary to recognize the cracks in the floor of the ocean through which the vast floods of lava were forced for the upbuilding of these islands.

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**Who acts:** It, lava · **What happens:** seem, recognize, force, flood · **To what, where:** cracks, floor, vast floods, ocean

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, lava), 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:pg66516:25:13
# text = It seems absolutely necessary to recognize the cracks in the floor of the ocean through which the vast floods of lava were forced for the upbuilding of these islands.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	upbuilding	upbuilding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | It |  |  |  |  | absolutely, necessary *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **recognize** | to-infinitive |  | the cracks |  | the floor of the ocean |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus |
| 3 | **force** | past · passive |  | the vast floods of lava |  | the ocean |  | for the upbuilding of this islands | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **flood** |  | lava |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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