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title: Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 and died in 1890 aged 37; he sold… — Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 and died in 1890 aged 37; he sold very few paintings, and his fame grew after his death. Who acts: Vincent, fame. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★, sentence 8

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Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 and died in 1890 aged 37; he sold very few paintings, and his fame grew after his death.

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**Who acts:** Vincent, fame · **What happens:** bear, die, sell, grow · **To what, where:** Vincent, 1853, few paintings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» 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 (Vincent, fame), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:8
# text = Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 and died in 1890 aged 37; he sold very few paintings, and his fame grew after his death.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Vincent	Vincent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	van	Van	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Gogh	Gogh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1853	1853	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1890	1890	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod
13	37	37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Vincent |  | 1853 |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **die** | past |  |  |  |  |  | in 1890  37 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1890=Attribute |
| 3 | **sell** | past | Vincent | few paintings |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | past | Vincent's fame |  |  |  | after Vincent's death |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **die** |  | Vincent |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

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