The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 58

Sometimes they applied to particular individuals alone: thus, in the case of Cuchullain, it was a _Gesa_ that no one should wake him out of his sleep.

Who acts: characters, case, one, Gesa · What happens: apply, be, wake, sleep · To what, where: case, Gesa, sleep

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (characters, case, one, Gesa), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 applied	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 applied	nsubj
3	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 individuals	case
5	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 individuals	amod
6	individuals	individual	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 applied	obl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 applied	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 thus	punct
9	thus	thus	ADV	_	3 applied	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 case	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 case	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 case	det
13	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applied	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Cuchullain	case
15	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 case	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Gesa	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 Gesa	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Gesa	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Gesa	det
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Gesa	punct
21	Gesa	Gesa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 applied	parataxis
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Gesa	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 wake	mark
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wake	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 wake	aux
27	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 applied	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wake	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 sleep	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 sleep	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sleep	nmod:poss
32	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wake	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 applied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	apply	past	characters = character		the case of Cuchullain	to particular individuals; alone, sometimes, thus property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in case=Destination
2	is a	past	case	a Gesa			tree rules
3	wake	should	no one	Gesa	Gesa's sleep		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	sleep		Gesa				nom sleep «state 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 16, sentence 58