Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 35
Thus must the king, being captive, stand at King Arthur's pleasure to pay him such ransom as he might think good.
Who acts: king, King Arthur · What happens: be, stand, pay, think, please · To what, where: pleasure, king
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, King Arthur), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 stand | advmod |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stand | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 captive | punct |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 captive | cop |
| 7 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stand | punct |
| 9 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 pleasure | case |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Arthur | compound |
| 12 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Arthur | case |
| 14 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stand | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pay | mark |
| 16 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stand | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pay | obj |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ransom | amod |
| 19 | ransom | ransom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pay | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 think | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 think | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 think | aux |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pay | advcl |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 think | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | captive property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | must | the king | King Arthur's pleasure | thus property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at pleasure=Location | |||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king | such ransom obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ransom=Asset | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | might | king | good property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | please | King Arthur | 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.
Text: «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (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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