Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 66

I’ve often heard him singing in the night All low and weird, and when the morning dawned, He’d tell me what his partner’s luck had been.

Who acts: I, morning, Lacote, luck · What happens: hear, sing, dawn, tell, be · To what, where: Lacote, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, morning, Lacote, luck), 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	4 heard	nsubj
2	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	obj
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heard	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singing	obl
10	All	all	ADV	_	11 low	advmod
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 weird	cc
13	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 low	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 dawned	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 morning	det
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dawned	nsubj
19	dawned	dawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dawned	punct
21	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
22	’d	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	parataxis
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 tell	obj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 partner	nmod:poss
27	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 luck	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 partner	case
29	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 been	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 been	aux
31	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 tell	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	I	Lacote			often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	gerund	I not said here			night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dawn	past	the morning					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	would	Lacote		me		what obj	tree rules
5	be	past · perfect	Lacote's partner's luck					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 66