Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work, sentence 7

It is often said that Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life; historians say he may have sold a few more, but he was not famous until after he died in 1890.

Who acts: Van, historians · What happens: say, sell, not be, die · To what, where: merch, one painting, life, few more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work» 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, historians), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sold	mark
6	Van	Van	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sold	nsubj
7	Gogh	Gogh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Van	flat
8	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 painting	nummod
11	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sold	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 life	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sold	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
16	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sold	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sold	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sold	aux
21	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 say	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 more	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 more	amod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 sold	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 famous	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 famous	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 famous	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 famous	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 famous	advmod
30	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	conj
31	until	until	SCONJ	_	34 died	mark
32	after	after	SCONJ	_	34 died	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 died	nsubj
34	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 famous	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 1890	case
36	1890	1890	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 died	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		merch		often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic
2	sell	past	Van	one painting	Van's life		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	historians				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sell	may · perfect	Van	a few more			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
5	not is	past	Van			famous property	tree rules
6	die	past	Van			in 1890	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1890=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:039-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work.lesson:7.

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. 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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