Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 7
"Detained at His Majesty's pleasure" is a British official phrase for being held in prison for an indefinite time, with no end date fixed in advance.
Who acts: pleasure, Majesty · What happens: detain, be, hold, fix, please · To what, where: pleasure, British official phrase, prison, end date, advance
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure, Majesty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
| 2 | Detained | detain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pleasure | acl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 pleasure | case |
| 4 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Majesty | case |
| 7 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 phrase | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 phrase | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 phrase | det |
| 11 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 phrase | amod |
| 12 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 phrase | amod |
| 13 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 held | mark |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 held | aux:pass |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 phrase | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 prison | case |
| 18 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | indefinite | indefinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 date | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 date | case |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 date | det |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 date | compound |
| 27 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obl |
| 28 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 date | acl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 advance | case |
| 30 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fixed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 phrase | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | detain in a quote | participle | prison's Majesty's pleasure not said here | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | prison's Majesty's pleasure | a British official phrase | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | gerund · passive | a British official phrase not said here | prison | time | with no end date | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: in prison=Location | ||
| 4 | fix | participle | no end date not said here | advance | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | please in a quote | prison's Majesty | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:euphemisms:027-crime-prison-and-police.lesson:7.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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