--- title: Van Gogh sold very few paintings and was supported by his brother Th… — Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso… · tree and pragmatics description: Van Gogh sold very few paintings and was supported by his brother Theo; he died in 1890 at 37, and his fame grew after his death, helped by Theo's wife Jo. Who acts: Van, brother, fame. A sentence of the lesson «Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Bais --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/) / 5 # Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...), sentence 5 Van Gogh sold very few paintings and was supported by his brother Theo; he died in 1890 at 37, and his fame grew after his death, helped by Theo's wife Jo. **Who acts:** Van, brother, fame · **What happens:** sell, support, die, grow, help · **To what, where:** few paintings This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...)» 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, brother, fame), 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:5 # text = Van Gogh sold very few paintings and was supported by his brother Theo; he died in 1890 at 37, and his fame grew after his death, helped by Theo's wife Jo. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Van Van PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Gogh Gogh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 paintings painting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 supported support VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 Theo Theo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1890 1890 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 37 37 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 fame fame NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 after after ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 Theo Theo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 Jo Jo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 36 . . 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 | **sell** | past | Van | few paintings | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Theme | | 2 | **support** | past · passive | Van's brother | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **die** | past | Van | | | | | at 37; in 1890 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1890=Attribute | | 4 | **grow** | past | Van's fame | | | | after Van's death | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **help** | participle | Van's fame *not said here* | | | | | by Theo's wife | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **die** | | Van | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:5`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahl…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/4/) - next →: [Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahl…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/)