Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 45
But as Francis the First, an experienced judge of the fair sex, used to say “Souvent femme varie, fol qui s’y fie,” and the lady proved as untractable as ever.
Who acts: Francis · What happens: use, say, prove · To what, where: experienced judge, Souvent femme varie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Francis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 proved | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 Francis | case |
| 3 | Francis | Francis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 proved | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 First | det |
| 5 | First | First | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 Francis | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 judge | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 judge | det |
| 8 | experienced | experienced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 judge | amod |
| 9 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Francis | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sex | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sex | det |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sex | amod |
| 13 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 judge | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 used | punct |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 judge | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 used | xcomp |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 varie | punct |
| 19 | Souvent | Souvent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 varie | compound |
| 20 | femme | femme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 varie | compound |
| 21 | varie | varie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fol | punct |
| 23 | fol | fol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 varie | conj |
| 24 | qui | qui | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 fie | compound |
| 25 | s’y | s'y | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fie | amod |
| 26 | fie | fie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 varie | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Francis | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Francis | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 lady | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lady | det |
| 31 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Francis | conj |
| 32 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 untractable | advmod |
| 34 | untractable | untractable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 proved | xcomp |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 ever | case |
| 36 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 proved | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a experienced judge of the fair sex not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Souvent femme varie and fol and qui s’y fie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent varie=Topic | |||||
| 3 | prove | past | Francis and the lady | untractable property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as ever=Attribute |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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