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title: Their medical knowledge did not require any such remarkable origin,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., with its d
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 18

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg7885:41:18
# text = 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.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Hartland	Hartland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	On	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
23	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	contributed	contribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Y	Y	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	Cymmrodor	Cymmrodor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	vol.	vol.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	xii	xii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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