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title: PAGE 142.--_King Arthur--held captive the king, who had erst made hi… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: PAGE 142.--_King Arthur--held captive the king, who had erst made him a prisoner. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. Notes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 74

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PAGE 142.--\_King Arthur--held captive the king, who had erst made him a prisoner.

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**What happens:** hold, make · **To what, where:** king, PAGE King Arthur

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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, Amen. Notes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8447:13:74
# text = PAGE 142.--_King Arthur--held captive the king, who had erst made him a prisoner.
1	PAGE	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	142	142	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	erst	erst	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the king |  |  |  | King *obj*; a prisoner *xcomp*; erst *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product |

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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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