Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...), sentence 13

Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512 standing on a scaffold and bending his head back, not lying down; he wrote a funny poem about his aching neck.

Who acts: Michelangelo · What happens: paint, stand, bend back, not lie down, write · To what, where: Chapel ceiling, 1508, scaffold, head, funny poem

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 (Michelangelo), 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	Michelangelo	Michelangelo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 painted	nsubj
2	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ceiling	det
4	Sistine	Sistine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Chapel	compound
5	Chapel	Chapel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ceiling	compound
6	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painted	obj
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 1508	case
8	1508	1508	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 painted	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 1512	cc
10	1512	1512	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 1508	conj
11	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 painted	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 scaffold	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 scaffold	det
14	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bending	cc
16	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 standing	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bending	obj
19	back	back	ADV	_	16 bending	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lying	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 lying	advmod
22	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 standing	conj
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 lying	compound:prt
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 wrote	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wrote	nsubj
26	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 painted	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 poem	det
28	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 poem	amod
29	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wrote	obj
30	about	about	ADP	_	33 neck	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 neck	nmod:poss
32	aching	aching	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 neck	amod
33	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poem	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 painted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paint	past	Michelangelo	the Chapel ceiling	1508		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent ceiling=Theme between 1508=Destination
2	stand	gerund	Michelangelo not said here		a scaffold		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on scaffold=Location
3	bend back	gerund	Michelangelo not said here	Michelangelo's head			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
4	not lie down	gerund	Michelangelo not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	write	past	Michelangelo	a funny poem		about Michelangelo's aching neck	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent poem=Recipient about neck=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:016-famous-artists-simply.lesson:13.

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, 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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