Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 55
The cannibalistic orgies of the South Sea Islanders should be compared with this practice.
What happens: compare · To what, where: cannibalistic orgies
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 orgies | det |
| 2 | cannibalistic | cannibalistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 orgies | amod |
| 3 | orgies | orgy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Islanders | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Islanders | det |
| 6 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sea | compound |
| 7 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Islanders | compound |
| 8 | Islanders | islander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 orgies | nmod |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 compared | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 compared | aux:pass |
| 11 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 practice | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 practice | det |
| 14 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 compared | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 compared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | should · passive | the cannibalistic orgies of the Sea Islanders | with this practice | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with practice=Co-Patient |
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: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (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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