Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 18

Their medical knowledge did not require any such remarkable origin, as Mr. Hartland has shown in a paper "On Welsh Folk-Medicine," contributed to _Y Cymmrodor_, vol. xii.

Who acts: medical knowledge, Hartland · What happens: not require, show, contribute · To what, where: such remarkable origin, paper, Y

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 (medical knowledge, Hartland), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 knowledge	nmod:poss
2	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knowledge	amod
3	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 require	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 require	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 require	advmod
6	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 origin	det
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 origin	amod
9	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 origin	amod
10	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 require	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shown	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 shown	mark
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Hartland	nmod:desc
14	Hartland	Hartland	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 shown	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 shown	aux
16	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 require	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 paper	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 paper	det
19	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shown	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Welsh	punct
21	On	on	ADP	_	22 Welsh	case
22	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 shown	parataxis
23	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Welsh	flat
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Medicine	punct
25	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Welsh	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 contributed	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 contributed	punct
28	contributed	contribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Welsh	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 Y	case
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 to	punct
31	Y	Y	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 contributed	obl
32	Cymmrodor	Cymmrodor	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Y	flat
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 contributed	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 xii	punct
35	vol.	vol.	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 xii	compound
36	xii	xii	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Welsh	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 require	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not require	past · do-support	Physicians's medical knowledge	any such remarkable origin			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme origin=Precondition
2	show	present · perfect	Hartland Mr.			a paper	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	contribute	participle			Y		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to y=Recipient

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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