Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 16

So after a while he became dissatisfied with the new eyes, but he had thrown his own away, so he had to make the best of it.

Who acts: Wiske · What happens: become, throw away, have, make · To what, where: own, best

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., 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 (Wiske), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 became	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 while	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 while	det
4	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	dissatisfied	dissatisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eyes	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eyes	amod
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dissatisfied	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thrown	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 thrown	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thrown	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thrown	aux
16	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 became	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 own	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thrown	obj
19	away	away	ADV	_	16 thrown	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 had	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 best	det
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 make	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 best	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Wiske		while	dissatisfied property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	throw away	past · perfect	Wiske	Wiske's own		away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme
3	have	past	Wiske				tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	Wiske not said here	the best of head			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product

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: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 16