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title: His mischievous pranks would make him another Mercury living in any… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: His mischievous pranks would make him another Mercury living in any age before the beginning of the Christian era. Who acts: mischievous pranks. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 10

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His mischievous pranks would make him another Mercury living in any age before the beginning of the Christian era.

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**Who acts:** mischievous pranks · **What happens:** make, live, begin · **To what, where:** Mercury, name, age, Christian era

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mischievous pranks), 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:pg66357:2:10
# text = His mischievous pranks would make him another Mercury living in any age before the beginning of the Christian era.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | name's mischievous pranks | another Mercury | name |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary mercury=Product |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | name's mischievous pranks *not said here* |  |  |  | in any age; before the beginning of the Christian era |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Location |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | the Christian era |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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