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title: The cannibalistic orgies of the South Sea Islanders should be compar… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The cannibalistic orgies of the South Sea Islanders should be compared with this practice. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 55

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The cannibalistic orgies of the South Sea Islanders should be compared with this practice.

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**What happens:** compare · **To what, where:** cannibalistic orgies

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:3:55
# text = The cannibalistic orgies of the South Sea Islanders should be compared with this practice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cannibalistic	cannibalistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	orgies	orgy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Islanders	islander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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