Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 17

To explain their skill and uncanny knowledge of herbs, the folk traced them to a supernatural ancestress, who taught them their craft in a place still called Pant-y-Meddygon ("Doctors' Dingle").

Who acts: folk, supernatural ancestress, place, Physicians · What happens: explain, trace, teach, call, craft · To what, where: skill, Physicians, craft, place, Pant y · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk, supernatural ancestress, place, Physicians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 explain	mark
2	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 skill	nmod:poss
4	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 explain	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 knowledge	cc
6	uncanny	uncanny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knowledge	amod
7	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skill	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 herbs	case
9	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knowledge	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 traced	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 folk	det
12	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traced	nsubj
13	traced	trace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 skill	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 traced	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 ancestress	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ancestress	det
17	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ancestress	amod
18	ancestress	ancestress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traced	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 taught	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 taught	nsubj
21	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ancestress	acl:relcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 taught	obj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 craft	nmod:poss
24	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taught	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 place	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 place	det
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taught	obl
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 called	advmod
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 place	acl
30	Pant	pant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 y	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Pant	punct
32	y	y	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Meddygon	punct
34	Meddygon	Meddygon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 place	appos
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 Dingle	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 Dingle	punct
37	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 Dingle	nmod:poss
38	'	's	PART	_	37 Doctors	case
39	Dingle	Dingle	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Meddygon	appos
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 Dingle	punct
41	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 Dingle	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 explain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive		Physicians's skill and uncanny knowledge of herbs					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Topic
2	trace	past	the folk	Physicians = physician				to a supernatural ancestress	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	teach speech: other	past	a supernatural ancestress	Physicians's craft	Physicians = physician	a place			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient craft=Topic
4	call	participle	a place not said here	Pant y			still		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	craft		Physicians = physician						nom craft «act transitive»: 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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