Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...), sentence 5
Van Gogh sold very few paintings and was supported by his brother Theo; he died in 1890 at 37, and his fame grew after his death, helped by Theo's wife Jo.
Who acts: Van, brother, fame · What happens: sell, support, die, grow, help · To what, where: few paintings
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 (Van, brother, fame), 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 | Van | Van | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sold | nsubj |
| 2 | Gogh | Gogh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Van | flat |
| 3 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 few | advmod |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 paintings | amod |
| 6 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sold | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 supported | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 supported | aux:pass |
| 9 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sold | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 brother | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 supported | obl |
| 13 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | appos |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 died | nsubj |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sold | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1890 | case |
| 18 | 1890 | 1890 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 died | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 37 | case |
| 20 | 37 | 37 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 died | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grew | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grew | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fame | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sold | parataxis |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 death | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 death | nmod:poss |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 helped | punct |
| 30 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 grew | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 wife | case |
| 32 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 wife | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 Theo | case |
| 34 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 helped | obl |
| 35 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 wife | appos |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | Van | few paintings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Theme | ||||
| 2 | support | past · passive | Van's brother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | die | past | Van | at 37; in 1890 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1890=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | Van's fame | after Van's death | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | help | participle | Van's fame not said here | by Theo's wife | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | die | Van | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:5.
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. 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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