--- title: Jean-Michel Basquiat started as a graffiti writer in New York, paint… — Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso… · tree and pragmatics description: Jean-Michel Basquiat started as a graffiti writer in New York, painted powerful pictures with words, crowns and faces in the 1980s, became famous young and died at 27. Who acts: Jean. 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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 (Jean), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:016-famous-artists-simply.lesson:15 # text = Jean-Michel Basquiat started as a graffiti writer in New York, painted powerful pictures with words, crowns and faces in the 1980s, became famous young and died at 27. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 016-famous-artists-simply.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Jean Jean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 flat _ _ 3 Michel Michel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 Basquiat Basquiat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 graffiti graffiti NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 writer writer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 12 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 painted paint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 15 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 crowns crown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 1980s 1980s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 27 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 28 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod 29 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 27 27 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past | Jean | | | | | as a graffiti writer in New York | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **paint** | past | Jean *not said here* | powerful pictures | | the 1980s | | with words and crowns and faces | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme in 1980s=Destination | | 3 | **become** | past | Jean *not said here* | | | | | famous, young *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **die** | past | Jean *not said here* | | | 27 | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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](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:016-famous-artists-simply.lesson:15`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahl…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/14/) - next →: [Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahl…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/)