Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 6

Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night in 1889 at a hospital in France where he was being treated for mental illness, using swirling brushstrokes on purpose and writing about his ideas in letters to his brother.

Who acts: Vincent · What happens: paint, treat, use, swirl, write · To what, where: Starry Night, 1889, Vincent, swirling brushstrokes, purpose, letters

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 (Vincent), 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	Vincent	Vincent	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 painted	nsubj
2	van	Van	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Vincent	flat
3	Gogh	Gogh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Vincent	flat
4	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Night	det
6	Starry	Starry	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Night	compound
7	Night	night	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 painted	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1889	case
9	1889	1889	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 painted	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 hospital	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hospital	det
12	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 painted	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 France	case
14	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hospital	nmod
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 treated	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 treated	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 treated	aux
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 treated	aux:pass
19	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hospital	acl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 illness	case
21	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 illness	amod
22	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 treated	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 using	punct
24	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 painted	advcl
25	swirling	swirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 brushstrokes	amod
26	brushstrokes	brushstroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 using	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 purpose	case
28	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 using	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 writing	cc
30	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 using	conj
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 ideas	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 ideas	nmod:poss
33	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 writing	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 letters	case
35	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 writing	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 brother	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 brother	nmod:poss
38	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 letters	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 painted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paint	past	Vincent	the Starry Night	1889	at a hospital in France	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent night=Theme in 1889=Destination
2	treat	past · progressive · passive		Vincent		for mental illness	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	use	gerund	Vincent not said here	swirling brushstrokes	purpose		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brushstroke=Patient
4	swirl	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	write	gerund	Vincent not said here		letters to Vincent's brother	about Vincent's ideas	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about idea=Topic

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:6.

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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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