Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...), sentence 10

Qi Baishi was a famous 20th-century Chinese painter of simple ink paintings of shrimps, crabs, birds and flowers; he was a carpenter before becoming a painter, he became famous in his own lifetime, and today his paintings sell for millions.

Who acts: Qi, paintings · What happens: be, become, sell · To what, where: famous century Chinese painter, carpenter, painter

This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...)» 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 (Qi, paintings), 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	Qi	Qi	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 painter	nsubj
2	Baishi	Baishi	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Qi	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 painter	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 painter	det
5	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 painter	amod
6	20th	20th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	8 century	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 20th	punct
8	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 painter	compound
9	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 painter	amod
10	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 paintings	case
12	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 paintings	amod
13	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paintings	compound
14	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 painter	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 shrimps	case
16	shrimps	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 paintings	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crabs	punct
18	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shrimps	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 birds	punct
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shrimps	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flowers	cc
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shrimps	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 carpenter	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 carpenter	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 carpenter	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 carpenter	det
27	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 painter	parataxis
28	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 becoming	mark
29	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 carpenter	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 painter	det
31	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 becoming	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 became	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 became	nsubj
34	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 painter	conj
35	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 became	xcomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 lifetime	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 lifetime	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 lifetime	amod
39	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 famous	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sell	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sell	cc
42	today	today	ADV	_	45 sell	advmod
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 paintings	nmod:poss
44	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 sell	nsubj
45	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 painter	conj
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 millions	case
47	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 sell	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 painter	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Qi	a famous century Chinese painter	of simple ink paintings of shrimps and crabs and birds and flowers	tree rules
2	is a	past	Qi	a carpenter		tree rules
3	become	gerund	Qi not said here	a painter		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	become	past	Qi		famous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	sell	present	Qi's paintings		for millions; today property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for million=Asset

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:016-famous-artists-simply.lesson:10.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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