The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 69

“You who have been a father to us all, you who have fed us, and have proved yourself so brave--it is not deserved that you should be thus.

Who acts: You · What happens: be, feed, prove, not deserve · To what, where: father, us, you, yourself, enemy

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), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 father	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 father	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 father	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 father	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fed	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 us	nmod:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 fed	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 fed	nsubj:pass
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fed	aux
15	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 fed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 proved	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 proved	cc
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 proved	aux
20	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 fed	conj
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 proved	obj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 brave	advmod
23	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 proved	xcomp
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 deserved	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 deserved	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 deserved	aux:pass
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 deserved	advmod
28	deserved	deserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 proved	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 thus	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 thus	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 thus	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 thus	cop
33	thus	thus	ADV	_	28 deserved	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present · perfect	You	a father	us	who nsubj	tree rules
2	feed in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you		who nsubj:pass; us obj	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient we=Theme
3	prove in a quote	present · perfect		yourself		brave property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
4	not deserve in a quote	present · passive		enemy			tree rules
5	is in a quote	should	you			thus property	tree rules

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 69

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 69