Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 164
“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 · What happens: be, not be, do, not bless · To what, where: Happy wooing, old English proverb, union, wooing · Speech: someone speaks here
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.
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wooing | punct |
| 2 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wooing | amod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wooing | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wooing | det |
| 5 | wooing | wooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 long | nsubj |
| 7 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 long | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wooing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 proverb | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 proverb | det |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 proverb | csubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 doing | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 doing | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 proverb | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 proverb | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 proverb | amod |
| 18 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 proverb | amod |
| 19 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 long | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 delay | cc |
| 21 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 27 delay | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 delay | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 delay | cop |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 delay | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 delay | det |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 delay | amod |
| 27 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wooing | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 union | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 union | det |
| 30 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 delay | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Shah | case |
| 32 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 union | nmod |
| 33 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Shah | flat |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bride | cc |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 bride | nmod:poss |
| 36 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Shah | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 blessed | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 blessed | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 blessed | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 blessed | aux:pass |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 blessed | advmod |
| 42 | blessed | bless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wooing | parataxis |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 children | case |
| 44 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 blessed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wooing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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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