--- title: Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night in 1889 at a hospital in F… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics description: Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night in 1889 at a hospital in France where he was being treated for mental illness, using swirling brushstrokes on purpose and writing about his ideas in letters to his brother. Who acts: Vincent. 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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 (Vincent), 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:6 # text = Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night in 1889 at a hospital in France where he was being treated for mental illness, using swirling brushstrokes on purpose and writing about his ideas in letters to his brother. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Vincent Vincent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 van Van PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Gogh Gogh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 painted paint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Starry Starry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Night night PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 1889 1889 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 19 advmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 mental mental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 25 swirling swirl VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 amod _ _ 26 brushstrokes brushstroke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ _ 31 about about ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Vincent | the Starry Night | | 1889 | | at a hospital in France | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent night=Theme in 1889=Destination | | 2 | **treat** | past · progressive · passive | | Vincent | | | | for mental illness | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **use** | gerund | Vincent *not said here* | swirling brushstrokes | | purpose | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brushstroke=Patient | | 4 | **swirl** | gerund | | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **write** | gerund | Vincent *not said here* | | | letters to Vincent's brother | | about Vincent's ideas | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about idea=Topic | 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. 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