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title: All authorities tend to show, however, that cannibalism was extremel… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3, with its depend
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 57

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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.

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

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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: who acts (authorities, cannibalism), 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:pg78673:3:57
# text = 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.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	cannibalism	cannibalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	resorted	resort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	isolated	isolated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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