Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 57
He always boasted that nothing could be compared with Puna and its sweet-scented trees and vines.
Who acts: KUKU · What happens: boast, compare, scent · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (KUKU), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 boasted | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 boasted | advmod |
| 3 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 compared | mark |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 compared | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 compared | aux:pass |
| 8 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 boasted | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Puna | case |
| 10 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 compared | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 trees | cc |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 trees | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 scented | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sweet | punct |
| 15 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 trees | amod |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Puna | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 vines | cc |
| 18 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 trees | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 boasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | past | KUKU | always property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | compare | could · passive | nothing | with Puna and Island's scented trees and vines | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with puna=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | scent | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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