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title: The remarkable distribution of both hot and cold underground waters… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The remarkable distribution of both hot and cold underground waters in Hawaii needs careful study, and this has an important bearing on agriculture as well as upon science. Who acts: remarkable distribution, this. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundat
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 28

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The remarkable distribution of both hot and cold underground waters in Hawaii needs careful study, and this has an important bearing on agriculture as well as upon science.

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**Who acts:** remarkable distribution, this · **What happens:** need, have, distribute · **To what, where:** careful study, important bearing, agriculture, hot underground waters

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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 (remarkable distribution, this), 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:pg66516:29:28
# text = The remarkable distribution of both hot and cold underground waters in Hawaii needs careful study, and this has an important bearing on agriculture as well as upon science.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	distribution	distribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	29	cc	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	fixed	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | the remarkable distribution of hot underground waters in Hawaii | careful study |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot study=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | this | a important bearing |  | agriculture |  | science *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearing=Patient |
| 3 | **distribute** |  |  | hot underground waters in Hawaii |  |  |  |  | nom distribution «cognition 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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