Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 42

That which most sorely vexed Sir Gawain was that his sword scarce seemed worth a groat, the knight's armour was so good that Sir Gawain's weapon was stayed upon it.

Who acts: Sir, armour · What happens: vex, be, stay · To what, where: That, groat, weapon

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, armour), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 vexed	nsubj:pass
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 vexed	nsubj:pass
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 sorely	advmod
4	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	5 vexed	advmod
5	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	nsubj
7	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sir	flat
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seemed	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 seemed	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 scarce	nmod:poss
11	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scarce	compound
12	scarce	scarce	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vexed	ccomp
14	worth	worth	DET	PronType=Tot	16 groat	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 groat	det
16	groat	groat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 good	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 knight	det
19	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 armour	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 knight	case
21	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 good	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 good	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 good	advmod
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 groat	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 stayed	mark
26	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Gawain	nmod:desc
27	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 weapon	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Gawain	case
29	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stayed	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 stayed	aux:pass
31	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 good	advcl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stayed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	vex	participle · passive		That	which nsubj:pass; sorely property	tree rules
2	is	past	Sir	worth groat	Sir's sword scarce nsubj; seem property	tree rules
3	is	past	the knight's armour		good property	tree rules
4	stay	past · passive		Gawain Sir's weapon	upon armour	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 42