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title: He always boasted that nothing could be compared with Puna and its s… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He always boasted that nothing could be compared with Puna and its sweet-scented trees and vines. Who acts: KUKU. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 57

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He always boasted that nothing could be compared with Puna and its sweet-scented trees and vines.

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**Who acts:** KUKU · **What happens:** boast, compare, scent · **To what, where:** nothing

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:8:57
# text = He always boasted that nothing could be compared with Puna and its sweet-scented trees and vines.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	boasted	boast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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