Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 12
Louise Bourgeois made giant spider sculptures called Maman, French for mummy; she said the spider stood for her mother, who repaired tapestries, patient and protective.
Who acts: Louise, spider, mother · What happens: make, call, say, stand, repair · To what, where: giant spider sculptures, tapestries · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» 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 (Louise, spider, mother), 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 | Louise | Louise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | Bourgeois | Bourgeois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Louise | flat |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sculptures | amod |
| 5 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sculptures | compound |
| 6 | sculptures | sculpture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sculptures | acl |
| 8 | Maman | Maman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 French | punct |
| 10 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sculptures | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 mummy | case |
| 12 | mummy | mummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 French | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spider | det |
| 17 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 mother | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 repaired | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 repaired | nsubj |
| 24 | repaired | repair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mother | acl:relcl |
| 25 | tapestries | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 repaired | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 patient | punct |
| 27 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tapestries | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 protective | cc |
| 29 | protective | protective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 patient | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Louise | giant spider sculptures | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sculpture=Product | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | giant spider sculptures not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Louise | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | the spider | for spider's mother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for mother=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | repair | past | spider's mother | tapestries | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tapestry=Patient |
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:018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.lesson:12.
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 ×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.
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