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title: On raven pinions borne Night comes not less:--but after night comes… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On raven pinions borne Night comes not less:--but after night comes morn!’ Who acts: borne Night. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 6

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On raven pinions borne Night comes not less:--but after night comes morn!’

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**Who acts:** borne Night · **What happens:** bear, come · **To what, where:** less, raven pinions, morn

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (borne Night), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:4:6
# text = On raven pinions borne Night comes not less:--but after night comes morn!’
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pinions	pinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	Night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | present | borne Night | less |  | raven pinions |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location less=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present |  | morn |  |  | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morn=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (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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