Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 7

Edvard Munch, from Norway, made several versions of The Scream from 1893; he said the figure hears a scream passing through nature and covers its ears.

Who acts: Edvard, figure, scream · What happens: make, say, hear, pass, cover · To what, where: several versions, 1893, scream, nature, ears · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Edvard, figure, scream), 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	Edvard	Edvard	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
2	Munch	Munch	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Edvard	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Norway	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Norway	case
5	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Edvard	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Edvard	punct
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 versions	amod
9	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Scream	case
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Scream	det
12	Scream	scream	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 versions	nmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 1893	case
14	1893	1893	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 made	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 figure	det
19	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hears	nsubj
20	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 scream	det
22	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hears	obj
23	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 scream	acl
24	through	through	ADP	_	25 nature	case
25	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passing	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 covers	cc
27	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hears	conj
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ears	nmod:poss
29	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 covers	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	past	Edvard from Norway	several versions of the Scream	1893	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent version=Product from 1893=Material
2	say speech: assert	past	Edvard			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hear	present	the figure	a scream		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer scream=Stimulus
4	pass	gerund	a scream not said here		nature	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through nature=Location
5	cover	present	the figure not said here	figure's ears		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ear=Destination

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:7.

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 ×1, 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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