Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 9

Most experts say the Great Wave shows a huge storm wave out at sea, not a tsunami; because it was printed, many cheap copies were sold.

Who acts: Most experts, Great Wave · What happens: say, show, print, sell · To what, where: huge storm wave, sea, Wave, many cheap copies · 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 (Most experts, Great Wave), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 experts	amod
2	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wave	det
5	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Wave	amod
6	Wave	wave	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 shows	nsubj
7	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wave	det
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wave	amod
10	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wave	compound
11	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shows	obj
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 wave	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 sea	case
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wave	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tsunami	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 tsunami	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tsunami	det
18	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sea	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sold	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 printed	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 printed	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 printed	aux:pass
23	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 sold	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 printed	punct
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 copies	amod
26	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 copies	amod
27	copies	copy	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sold	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sold	aux:pass
29	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 say	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Most experts			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	show	present	the Great Wave	a huge storm wave	sea and a tsunami	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wave=Recipient
3	print	past · passive		Wave		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	sell	past · passive		many cheap copies		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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:9.

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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