1. Vergil, Syntax, and Caesar: Digital
Diagramming for the AP Curriculum
Bryce Bancroft
Elizabeth Andrews
Tufts University
Depiction of Virgil, 3rd C. AD
“Monnus-Mosaic”, Rheinisches
Landesmuseum, Trier
Tusculum portrait, Museo d’Antichita,
Turin, Italy

2. What is “Treebanking”?
ponto nox incubat atra = “dark night lay upon the sea” (Vergil 1.89)

3. Benefits of Treebanking
1. Easily accessible for Visual and Tactile Learners
2. Greater Command of Latin grammar and vocabulary
3. Access to Latin without the need for an L1 translation
4. Opportunities for students to take part in ongoing research

4. Multiple Modalities: A Treebank of Caesar DBG I.2.1
Apud Helvetios longe nobilissimus fuit et ditissimus Orgetorix.
Among the Helvetii, by far the most noble, and richest, was Orgetorix.

5. A Treebank of Caesar DBG I.2.1

6. Treebanking in Action!
1.418 Corripuere viam interea, qua semita monstrat.
Meanwhile, they seized the road which the way showed.
Visit:
http://sosol.perseids.org/sosol/publications/20057/treebank_cite_identifiers/31194/edit

7. Step One: Go to sosol.perseids.org & Sign in

8. Step Two: Start a New Treebank Annotation

9. Step Three: Add Your Text in Arethusa
Input text from Caesar I.1.5:
Qua de causa Helvetii quoque reliquos
Gallos virtute praecedunt, quod fere
cotidianis proeliis cum Germanis
contendunt, cum aut suis finibus eos
prohibent aut ipsi in eorum finibus bellum
gerunt.
Translation:
“Because of which cause, the Helvetians also surpass the remaining Gauls in respect to
virtue, because in almost daily battles they fight with the Germans, since either they
keep them from their borders or they themselves wage war in their borders.”

10. Step Four – Exit to Perseids

11. Addendum #1 – XML?

12. Addendum #2 – Replace aldt with harrington

13. Step 5 - Treebank Away! (click on your sentence)
http://www.perseids.org/tools/arethusa/app/#/perseids?chunk=1&doc=31195

14. Questions, Comments, Concerns?
• Feel free to email us with any questions!
• Elizabeth - e.a.andrews1@gmail.com
• Bryce - brycebancroft@gmail.com

15. Addendum: Text Alignment

16. Text Alignments: Latin & English
Gallia est omnis divisa in
partes tres,
All Gaul is divided into
three parts,
Alig
n

17. Align Away! And SAVE!

18. Vergil? 1.427-429
sosol.perseids.org

19. Caesar DBG 1.2.1
Is M. Messala, [et P.] M. Pisone consulibus regni cupiditate inductus
coniurationem nobilitatis fecit et civitati persuasit ut de finibus suis cum
omnibus copiis exirent: perfacile esse, cum virtute omnibus praestarent, totius
Galliae imperio potiri.

20. Caesar DBG 1.2.1-2

21. What is
“Treebanking”?
Caesar VI.17.5