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title: “Happy is the wooing that’s not long in the doing,” is an old Englis… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “Happy is the wooing that’s not long in the doing,” is an old English proverb and perhaps it was of the long delay in the union of Shah Latif and his bride, that they were not blessed with children. Who acts: Happy wooing, doing, proverb. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kinca
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 164

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“Happy is the wooing that’s not long in the doing,” is an old English proverb and perhaps it was of the long delay in the union of Shah Latif and his bride, that they were not blessed with children.

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**Who acts:** Happy wooing, doing, proverb · **What happens:** be, not be, do, not bless · **To what, where:** Happy wooing, old English proverb, union, wooing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Happy wooing, doing, proverb), 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:pg76982:9:164
# text = “Happy is the wooing that’s not long in the doing,” is an old English proverb and perhaps it was of the long delay in the union of Shah Latif and his bride, that they were not blessed with children.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wooing	wooing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	Latif	Latif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the Happy wooing and the long delay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | the Happy wooing and the long delay |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | doing |  |  | the old English proverb |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | proverb |  |  | the union of Shah and Shah's bride |  | of the long delay; perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **bless** | past · passive |  | wooing |  |  |  | with children | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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