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I need help analyzing this sentence in terms of clause elements =)

Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments, using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig, Kate Fox disovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.

My suggestion:

[Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments, using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig,]_ADV [Kate Fox]_S [discovers]_V [what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness]_dO

Thanks in advance! =)

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

There should be no comma after 'experiments', 'guinea pig' is not hyphenated, and 'discovers' is so spelt.  The rest of it and your parsing are fine.

Anonymous · Answer

I was asking about the analysis of the sentence... that is what I need help with. Discovers was just a spelling mistake, and the others (comma and hyphen) are the way they're written in the text I copied it from. Hopefully someone can tell me whether the suggestion for analysis I came up with is reasonable or completely farfetched...

Mister Micawber · Answer

I have already told you that your parsing is fine.

Anonymous · Answer

I'm sorry, I'm not a native speaker, and I completely misunderstood the meaning of the word parsing, I couldn't see how it had anything to do with my analysis. My dictionary told me it was: "to describe the grammar of a word when it is in a particular sentence or the grammar of the whole sentence" - so I figured it only had to do with correct spelling and such (that part of grammar), since that is what you commented on. Sorry. <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' alt='Emotion: smile'/> Thanks for your help!

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