Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 28
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 · What happens: need, have, distribute · To what, where: careful study, important bearing, agriculture, hot underground waters
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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 distribution | det |
| 2 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 distribution | amod |
| 3 | distribution | distribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 waters | case |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 waters | nsubj |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 waters | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cold | cc |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hot | conj |
| 9 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 waters | amod |
| 10 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 distribution | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Hawaii | case |
| 12 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 waters | nmod |
| 13 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 study | amod |
| 15 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 has | cc |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 needs | parataxis |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bearing | det |
| 21 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bearing | amod |
| 22 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 agriculture | case |
| 24 | agriculture | agriculture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bearing | nmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 29 science | cc |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 as | fixed |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 as | fixed |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 science | case |
| 29 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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