--- title: Louise Bourgeois made giant spider sculptures called Maman, French f… — Modern art: "my little brother could do that" · tree and pragmatics description: Louise Bourgeois made giant spider sculptures called Maman, French for mummy; she said the spider stood for her mother, who repaired tapestries, patient and protective. Who acts: Louise, spider, mother. 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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 (Louise, spider, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.lesson:12 # text = Louise Bourgeois made giant spider sculptures called Maman, French for mummy; she said the spider stood for her mother, who repaired tapestries, patient and protective. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Louise Louise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Bourgeois Bourgeois PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 sculptures sculpture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 Maman Maman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 mummy mummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 repaired repair VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 25 tapestries tapestry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 patient patient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 protective protective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Louise | giant spider sculptures | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sculpture=Product | | 2 | **call** | participle | | giant spider sculptures *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Louise | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **stand** | past | the spider | | | | | for spider's mother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for mother=Attribute | | 5 | **repair** | past | spider's mother | tapestries | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tapestry=Patient | 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:018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.lesson:12`. **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 ×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. 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