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description: 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. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tre
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 35

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Thus must the king, being captive, stand at King Arthur's pleasure to pay him such ransom as he might think good.

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**Who acts:** king, King Arthur · **What happens:** be, stand, pay, think, please · **To what, where:** pleasure, king

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8447:12:35
# text = Thus must the king, being captive, stand at King Arthur's pleasure to pay him such ransom as he might think good.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ransom	ransom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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