Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 15
Ilya Repin, born in Chuhuiv in Ukraine, finished Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1891; it shows a legend of Cossacks writing a cheeky, insulting letter to the Ottoman sultan.
Who acts: Ilya, story, Cossacks · What happens: bear, finish, show, write · To what, where: Ilya, Chuhuiv, Reply, 1891, legend, cheeky insulting letter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilya, story, Cossacks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ilya | Ilya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 finished | nsubj |
| 2 | Repin | Repin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ilya | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Ilya | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Chuhuiv | case |
| 6 | Chuhuiv | Chuhuiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Ukraine | case |
| 8 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Chuhuiv | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Reply | punct |
| 10 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Reply | reply | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 finished | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Cossacks | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Cossacks | det |
| 14 | Zaporozhian | zaporozhian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Cossacks | amod |
| 15 | Cossacks | cossack | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Reply | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1891 | case |
| 17 | 1891 | 1891 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 finished | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 shows | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shows | nsubj |
| 20 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 finished | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 legend | det |
| 22 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shows | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Cossacks | case |
| 24 | Cossacks | cossack | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 legend | nmod |
| 25 | writing | write | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Cossacks | acl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 letter | det |
| 27 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 letter | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cheeky | punct |
| 29 | insulting | insulting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 letter | amod |
| 30 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 writing | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 sultan | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sultan | det |
| 33 | Ottoman | ottoman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sultan | amod |
| 34 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 letter | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | Ilya not said here | Chuhuiv in Ukraine | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | finish | past | Ilya | Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks | 1891 | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector reply=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | show | present | story | a legend of Cossacks | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent legend=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | write | gerund | Cossacks not said here | a cheeky insulting letter | the Ottoman sultan | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to sultan=Recipient |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:arts:015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.lesson:15.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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