Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 20

I paid them for the shells with elk meat so dry that they cannot eat it.

Who acts: I, lips · What happens: pay, not eat · To what, where: lips, meat

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lips), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 shells	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shells	det
6	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paid	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 meat	case
8	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 meat	compound
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 dry	advmod
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 paid	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 eat	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 eat	advmod
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dry	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	I	lips = lip				for the shells; with elk meat	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Asset for shell=Theme
2	not eat	can	lips = lip	meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (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 tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 20