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As other alternating verb constructions, there are more than mere difference in the order of internal arguments in Spray-Load alternation constructions. Many semantic/pragmatic differences also can be found between the alternants. One of the differences is that when the argument which takes GOAL/CONTAINER role is an NP, we can interpret that the argument is affected wholly by the argument which is given THEME/CONTAINEE role. In the other alternant, where the argument which takes GOAL/CONTAINER role is an PP, the argument is affected only partially by the other argument which bears THEME/CONTAINEE role. Although some semantic and pragmatic conditions should be met for the holistic reading in the GOAL/CONTAINER NP argument, these conditions alone can not account for the reason that holistic reading can only be found just in one alternant. Ultimately, it can be found that the syntactic structure might be the basis for semantic/pragmatic conditions to be applied to the constructions which might result in the construal difference in two alternants, and thus from the finding it can be conjectured that many semantic/pragmatic phenomenon might depend on the syntactic structures.