--- title: The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by the Japanese art… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics description: The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai, made around 1831, showing a huge wave over small boats with Mount Fuji in the distance. Who acts: Great Wave, woodblock print. 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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 (Great Wave, woodblock print), 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:8 # text = The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai, made around 1831, showing a huge wave over small boats with Mount Fuji in the distance. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Wave wave PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 off off ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Kanagawa Kanagawa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 woodblock woodblock NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 print print NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Japanese Japanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 artist artist NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 Hokusai Hokusai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 17 around around ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1831 1831 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 Mount Mount PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Fuji Fuji PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Great Wave off Kanagawa | a woodblock print | | | | by the Japanese artist | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a woodblock print *not said here* | | 1831 | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **show** | gerund | a woodblock print *not said here* | a huge wave | | small boats with Mount Fuji in the distance | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wave=Recipient | 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:8`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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