--- title: "Detained at His Majesty's pleasure" is a British official phrase fo… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: "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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:027-crime-prison-and-police.lesson:7 # text = "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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 027-crime-prison-and-police.lesson # annotation = 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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 2 Detained detain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 indefinite indefinite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 26 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 28 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/6/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/)