--- title: To explain their skill and uncanny knowledge of herbs, the folk trac… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/41/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [VII. Shepherd of Myddvai.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/41/) / 17 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:41:17 # text = 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"). 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 explain explain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 uncanny uncanny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 herbs herb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 traced trace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 supernatural supernatural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 ancestress ancestress NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 craft craft NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 30 Pant pant NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 y y NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Meddygon Meddygon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ' 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 Dingle Dingle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/41/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/41/18/) - ↑ back to [VII. 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