Help parsing sentence with "画的"

[navaburo]

I'm trying to parse the sentence "这幅画画的是喷泉". I know it means something like "This painting depicts a fountain." However, I'm not sure how the sentence parses (how it breaks down into phrases).

My best guess is 这幅画－画的－是－喷泉, with the literal reading "This painting, depicted is a fountain."

Any help decoding this sentence, or another example using this grammatical pattern would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Chris

[Iriya]

这个本子上写的是我的名字

I don't know, this is...pretty common? Perhaps it's the two 画 characters in a row that are confusing you?

[navaburo]

Thanks Iriya! That example really clarified this for me.

Perhaps it is a common pattern. But I'm a beginner, and studying independently, so often I miss simple things.

[chenmao]

your guess is right.

another example: "这个数数的不对。"这个_数_数的_不对。

the first"数"is noun and the second is verb .this sentence means like "this count is wrong."

[Iriya]

Some more examples of this pattern:

他今天穿的是西装。

我刚才吃的是回锅肉。

你学的是什么专业？

是 is often dropped in colloquial speech, e.g. 你吃饭了吗？吃的什么？

[Daan]

It may help to see 这幅画 as a topic here, rather than as the grammatical subject of this sentence. You could mentally translate it as "as to this painting, ...".

[Danny2312]

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[creamyhorror]

Here's a structural breakdown of the sentence:

[这幅画] [画的] 是 [喷泉]

= [这幅画] [(所)画的] [是] [喷泉]

= [(In) this picture] [that which is drawn] [is] [a fountain]