Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 57

All authorities tend to show, however, that cannibalism was extremely rare among the American races, and was only resorted to in isolated cases like the one here noted.

Who acts: authorities, cannibalism · What happens: tend, show, be, resort, note · To what, where: isolated cases · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (authorities, cannibalism), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 authorities	det
2	authorities	authority	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tend	nsubj
3	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 show	mark
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tend	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rare	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	13 rare	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rare	punct
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 cannibalism	det
10	cannibalism	cannibalism	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rare	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rare	cop
12	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	13 rare	advmod
13	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 show	ccomp
14	among	among	ADP	_	17 races	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 races	det
16	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 races	amod
17	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rare	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 resorted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 resorted	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 resorted	aux:pass
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 resorted	advmod
22	resorted	resort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tend	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 resorted	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 cases	case
25	isolated	isolated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cases	amod
26	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 resorted	obl
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 one	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cases	nmod
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 noted	advmod
31	noted	note	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 resorted	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	tend	present	all authorities			tree rules
2	show	to-infinitive	all authorities not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	that cannibalism		among the American races; extremely, however, rare property	tree rules
4	resort	past · passive		isolated cases like the one		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»
5	note	participle		here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 57