The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 86

But Cathbad laid a curse upon the king, Likewise his race: and Eman, and the land, Because they hated not that evil thing, And hindered not, with dreadful rites he banned; And lastly, ‘Woe to me not less,’ he cried, Three times; and gat him to his place; and died.

Who acts: Cathbad, age · What happens: lay, not hate, not hinder, ban, cry, gat · To what, where: curse, evil thing, dreadful rites, Cathbad

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cathbad, age), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 laid	cc
2	Cathbad	Cathbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 curse	det
5	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 king	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 race	punct
10	Likewise	likewise	ADV	_	12 race	advmod
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 race	nmod:poss
12	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 king	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Eman	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Eman	cc
15	Eman	Eman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 land	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 land	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 land	det
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Eman	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hated	punct
21	Because	because	SCONJ	_	23 hated	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hated	nsubj
23	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 hated	advmod
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 thing	det
26	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thing	amod
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hated	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hindered	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	30 hindered	cc
30	hindered	hinder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hated	conj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 hindered	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rites	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 rites	case
34	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 rites	amod
35	rites	rite	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hindered	obl
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 banned	nsubj
37	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 rites	acl:relcl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 lastly	punct
39	And	and	CCONJ	_	40 lastly	cc
40	lastly	lastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laid	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Woe	punct
42	‘	'	PUNCT	_	43 Woe	punct
43	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lastly	conj
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 me	case
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 Woe	nmod
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 less	advmod
47	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 Woe	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 cried	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	51 cried	punct
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 cried	nsubj
51	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 lastly	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 cried	punct
53	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 times	nummod
54	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 cried	obl:unmarked
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 gat	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 gat	cc
57	gat	gat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 cried	conj
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 gat	obj
59	to	to	ADP	_	61 place	case
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 place	nmod:poss
61	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 gat	obl
62	;	;	PUNCT	_	64 died	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 died	cc
64	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Cathbad	a curse		upon the king Cathbad's race; Eman obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent curse=Theme upon king=Destination
2	not hate	past	age	that evil thing			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	not hinder	past	age not said here			with dreadful rites	vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	ban	past	Cathbad	dreadful rites not said here			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer rite=Theme
5	cry speech: express	past	Cathbad		time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	gat	infinitive	Cathbad not said here	Cathbad		to Cathbad's place	tree rules
7	die	past	Cathbad not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	race		Cathbad				nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 86