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title: The Central Pacific position is unique, and is of advantage for reco… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The Central Pacific position is unique, and is of advantage for recording distant earthquakes through the uninterrupted sea floor which lies between Hawaii and many earthquake places such as South America, Mexico, and Japan. Who acts: Pacific position, advantage, uninterrupted sea floor. A sentence 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 20

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The Central Pacific position is unique, and is of advantage for recording distant earthquakes through the uninterrupted sea floor which lies between Hawaii and many earthquake places such as South America, Mexico, and Japan.

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**Who acts:** Pacific position, advantage, uninterrupted sea floor · **What happens:** be, record, lie · **To what, where:** distant earthquakes, uninterrupted sea floor, Hawaii

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pacific position, advantage, uninterrupted sea floor), 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:pg66516:29:20
# text = The Central Pacific position is unique, and is of advantage for recording distant earthquakes through the uninterrupted sea floor which lies between Hawaii and many earthquake places such as South America, Mexico, and Japan.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
3	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	recording	record	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	uninterrupted	uninterrupted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Pacific position |  |  |  |  | Japan *obl*; unique *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Pacific position *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of advantage | tree rules |
| 3 | **record** | gerund | advantage *not said here* | distant earthquakes |  | the uninterrupted sea floor |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent earthquake=Theme through floor=Destination |
| 4 | **lie** | present | the uninterrupted sea floor |  |  | Hawaii and many earthquake places such South America and Mexico |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between hawaii=Location |

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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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