<def-root>A <fen>Speaker</fen> talks about a <fen>Topic</fen>, which may be an action performed by the <fen>Speaker</fen> or an entity or state of affairs that they are associated with in order to suggest that the <fen>Speaker</fen> is worthy of admiration. The Speaker may give an explicit <fen>Explanation</fen> for why the <fen>Topic</fen> redounds to their credit. Alternatively, a <fen>Message</fen> frame element can be used to directly describe what the <fen>Speaker</fen> says, leaving the more specific <fen>Explanation</fen> for admirability to be inferred. Instead of the <fen>Speaker</fen>, the action may be attributed metonymically to the <fen>Medium</fen>, or possibly the <fen>Expressor</fen>.
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<ex><fex name="Speaker">Turkish officials</fex> <t>boasted</t> <fex name="Topic">of giving 'tens of thousands of dollars in surreptitious payments' to a prominent American politician</fex>.</ex>
<ex><fex name="Speaker">He</fex> <fex name="Time">then</fex> <t>vaunted</t> <fex name="Topic">his own clan</fex>, but failed to mention Emanuel Ungaro, who described the omission as ''lamentable''.</ex>
<ex><fex name="Medium">The press release</fex> <t>boasts</t> <fex name="mes">that "a direct connection between the cartridge and the system" means no more having to blow dust out of game cartridges</fex>.</ex>
<ex><fex name="Speaker">70's comics like Chevy Chase and Steve Martin</fex> over-stated their egotism and <t>preened</t> <fex name="Topic">over their superiority</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Speaker</fen> is the person who produces a message about a <fen>Topic</fen>.
<ex>During the 1990s <fex name="Spkr">Rio Grande Do Sul's governor, Olivio Dutra of the PT,</fex> <t>PREENED</t> about the province's GE-free status.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Addressee</fen> is the person to whom the <fen>Speaker</fen> communicated a message.
<ex>Sheppard said Turner apparently was backing up his <t>boast</t> <fex name="Add">to a bystander</fex> when a patrol officer saw him writing on the sign and arrested him.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Topic</fen> is a positively judged entity or state of affairs with which the <fen>Speaker</fen> is associated and about which they talk.
<ex>Mike Wallace was told that Canseco had <t>bragged</t> <fex name="top">about steroids</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>Any description of the event (or state) which is not covered by more specific FEs, including secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may indicate salient characteristics of the Speaker that also affect the action (deliberately, eagerly).
<ex>She insulted everyone she spoke to, and <t>boasted</t>
<fex name="Manner">loudly</fex> about a salary that no one else in the office could ever hope to make.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>An act whereby the <fen>Speaker</fen> makes a boastful statement.
<ex>He <t>bragged</t> about himself <fex name="Mns">by saying: 'I understand the language of the birds.'</fex></ex></def-root>
<def-root><fen>Medium</fen> is the physical entity or channel used by the <fen>Speaker</fen> to transmit the statement.
<ex>CNN's Jeff Greenfield <t>bragged</t> <fex name="Medium">on the air</fex> recently that ratings are high. </ex></def-root>
<def-root>The state of the <fen>Speaker</fen> during the statement.
<ex>His <fex name="Dep">drunken</fex> <t>boast</t>, however, cost him his life.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The time when the statement is made.
<ex>The public does not care, but the media definitely do as Haddock herself <t>boasted</t>
<fex name="Time">the next morning</fex> on Good Morning America.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The FE specifies the place where the statement takes place.
<ex>'I'm Pat Crowe,' he <t>boasted</t> <fex name="Place">at the police station</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>A characteristic of the entity or state of affairs denoted by the <fen>Topic</fen> which explains why the <fen>Speaker</fen> is proud of the association with the <fen>Topic</fen> referent.
<ex>He's not a particularly great one, but he's <t>vaunted</t> by the Democrats <fex name="exp">as the greatest threat to their party</fex>, so who are we to argue?</ex></def-root>
<def-root>A description of the state of affairs that redounds to the <fen>Speaker</fen>'s credit
<ex>Cosmai <t>BRAGGED</t> <fex name="mes">that Hyundai's latest quality rankings place the automaker on par with Honda and Toyota</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root><fen>Role</fen> is used for the capacity in which the <fen>Topic</fen> entity or state of affairs is judged, and is expressed in <ment>as</ment>-PPs.
<ex>Ricky constantly <t>bragged</t> about his father <fex name="rol">as a musician</fex> but he never had much to say about him as a parent.</ex></def-root>
<def-root><fen>Expressor</fen> is the body part or action that conveys the feeling of pride of the <fen>Speaker</fen>.
<ex>The senator's <t>boastful</t> <fex name="exp">exaggerations of her academic record at a New Hampshire campaign event</fex> also contributed to her withdrawal.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The Occasion is the reason a public statement is given.</def-root>
<def-root>Expressions marked with this extra-thematic FE indicate that the particular Statement event referred to is conceived as embedded within an iterated series of similar events or states. Most expressions of <fen>Particular_iteration</fen> indicate which instance of the series is being referred to.</def-root>
<def-root>The emotional or physical state of the <fen>Speaker</fen> that leads to their speaking.</def-root>
<def-root>Degree to which event occurs.</def-root>
Judgment_communication
COD: boast
COD: talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about oneself
COD: an act of boasting.
FN: gloat or exult
FN: boast pretentiously
COD: boast about or praise (something), especially excessively.
FN: indicative of pride felt
COD: boastful or inflated talk or behaviour
COD: express a trivial complaint; grumble
COD: a person who brags.