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description: 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. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 58

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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.

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

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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 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:16:59
# text = 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.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	applied	apply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Gesa	Gesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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