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title: And the strife between them waxed so hot that the Peers departed fro… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the strife between them waxed so hot that the Peers departed from the King, taking their men with them, so that day the King's host was made the smaller by forty thousand men. Who acts: strife, Peers, thousand men. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred J
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 101

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And the strife between them waxed so hot that the Peers departed from the King, taking their men with them, so that day the King's host was made the smaller by forty thousand men.

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**Who acts:** strife, Peers, thousand men · **What happens:** wax, depart, take, make · **To what, where:** men, day

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strife, Peers, thousand men), 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:pg75339:12:101
# text = And the strife between them waxed so hot that the Peers departed from the King, taking their men with them, so that day the King's host was made the smaller by forty thousand men.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	waxed	wax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Peers	Peer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	xcomp	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	compound	_	_
36	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wax** | past | the strife between Peers |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **depart** | past | the Peers |  |  |  |  | from the King | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from king=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the strife between Peers *not said here* |  | Peers's men |  |  | with Peers *= peer* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive | thousand men | that day  the King's host |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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