--- title: It is often said that Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life; h… — Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and har… · tree and pragmatics description: It is often said that Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life; historians say he may have sold a few more, but he was not famous until after he died in 1890. Who acts: Van, historians. A sentence of the lesson «Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work» of the arts course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work/7/) [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/) / [Art as a job: who makes art, money, fa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work/) / 7 # Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work, sentence 7 It is often said that Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life; historians say he may have sold a few more, but he was not famous until after he died in 1890. **Who acts:** Van, historians · **What happens:** say, sell, not be, die · **To what, where:** merch, one painting, life, few more · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work» 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, historians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:039-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work.lesson:7 # text = It is often said that Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life; historians say he may have sold a few more, but he was not famous until after he died in 1890. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 039-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work.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 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 expl _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 Van Van PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 Gogh Gogh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 painting painting NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux _ _ 21 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 31 until until SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 after after SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 1890 1890 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | merch | | | | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic | | 2 | **sell** | past | Van | one painting | | Van's life | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | historians | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **sell** | may · perfect | Van | a few more | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is** | past | Van | | | | | famous *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **die** | past | Van | | | | | in 1890 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1890=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:039-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work.lesson:7`. **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. **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: [Art as a job: who makes art, money, fa…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work/6/) - next →: [Art as a job: who makes art, money, fa…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work/)