The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 109

You have fed me, and have been as a father: I want no pay for this tail that I have lost.”

Who acts: You, I · What happens: feed, be, want, lose · To what, where: me, pay, tail

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fed	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	aux
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 father	cc
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 father	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 father	cop
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 father	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 father	det
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fed	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 want	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 want	nsubj
14	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	parataxis
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 pay	det
16	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 want	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 tail	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 tail	det
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 want	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lost	nsubj:pass
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 lost	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lost	aux
23	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 tail	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 want	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feed	present · perfect	You		me		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is	present · perfect	You not said here			as a father	tree rules
3	want	present	I	no pay		for this tail	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pay=Theme
4	lose	present · perfect · passive		this tail		I nsubj	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 109