--- title: Van Gogh painted a series of sunflower paintings in 1888 and 1889, w… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics description: Van Gogh painted a series of sunflower paintings in 1888 and 1889, with flowers at every stage from fresh to wilting, to decorate a room for his friend the painter Paul Gauguin. Who acts: Van. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Van), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.lesson:10 # text = Van Gogh painted a series of sunflower paintings in 1888 and 1889, with flowers at every stage from fresh to wilting, to decorate a room for his friend the painter Paul Gauguin. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Van Van PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Gogh Gogh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 painted paint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 series series NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 sunflower sunflower NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 paintings painting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1888 1888 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 1889 1889 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 22 wilting wilt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 decorate decorate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 painter painter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 Paul Paul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 34 Gauguin Gauguin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 flat _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **paint** | past | Van | a series of sunflower paintings | | 1888 | | with flowers at every stage | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent series=Theme in 1888=Destination | | 2 | **wilt** | gerund | Van *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **decorate** | to-infinitive | Van *not said here* | a room | | | | for Van's friend | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Destination | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.lesson:10`. **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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