Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...), sentence 15

Jean-Michel Basquiat started as a graffiti writer in New York, painted powerful pictures with words, crowns and faces in the 1980s, became famous young and died at 27.

Who acts: Jean · What happens: start, paint, become, die · To what, where: powerful pictures, 1980s, 27

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 (Jean), 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	Jean	Jean	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 started	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Jean	flat
3	Michel	Michel	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jean	flat
4	Basquiat	Basquiat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Michel	flat
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 writer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 writer	det
8	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 writer	compound
9	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 York	case
11	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 York	flat
12	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 writer	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 painted	punct
14	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 started	conj
15	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pictures	amod
16	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 painted	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 words	case
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pictures	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 crowns	punct
20	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 words	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 faces	cc
22	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 words	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 1980s	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 1980s	det
25	1980s	1980s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	14 painted	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 painted	conj
28	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	xcomp
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 died	cc
31	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 became	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 27	case
33	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 died	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past	Jean			as a graffiti writer in New York	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	paint	past	Jean not said here	powerful pictures	the 1980s	with words and crowns and faces	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme in 1980s=Destination
3	become	past	Jean not said here			famous, young property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	die	past	Jean not said here		27		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:15.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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