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title: But as Francis the First, an experienced judge of the fair sex, used… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., with its dependency tree
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 45

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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.

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**Who acts:** Francis · **What happens:** use, say, prove · **To what, where:** experienced judge, Souvent femme varie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:14:45
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Francis	Francis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	First	First	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	experienced	experienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Souvent	Souvent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	femme	femme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	varie	varie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	fol	fol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	qui	qui	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	compound	_	_
25	s’y	s'y	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fie	fie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
32	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	untractable	untractable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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