Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 101

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 · What happens: wax, depart, take, make · To what, where: men, day

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.

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 waxed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 strife	det
3	strife	strife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waxed	nsubj
4	between	between	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strife	nmod
6	waxed	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 hot	advmod
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 waxed	xcomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 departed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Peers	det
11	Peers	Peer	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 departed	nsubj
12	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hot	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 King	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 departed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taking	punct
17	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 waxed	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 men	nmod:poss
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 taking	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taking	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	31 made	mark
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	nsubj:pass
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 host	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 King	case
29	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 day	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux:pass
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 waxed	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 smaller	det
33	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 made	xcomp
34	by	by	ADP	_	37 men	case
35	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 thousand	compound
36	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 men	nummod
37	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 made	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 waxed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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

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: «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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 101