I am trying to create a relatively short sentence with TWO embedded relative clauses in Chinese. (It's only a sample sentence to demonstrate to my students the ways that different languages handle relative clauses). The sentence I made is:

(画)你发现的哪些肖像的画家死了。

It's supposed to mean: "The artist who painted those portraits that you found is dead."

I'm sure the sentence probably sounds unnatural, but is it grammatically correct? If not, please suggest an alternative sentence containing two relative clauses.

谢谢你们！

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I am trying to create a relatively short sentence with TWO embedded relative clauses in Chinese. (It's only a sample sentence to demonstrate to my students the ways that different languages handle relative clauses). The sentence I made is:

(画)你发现的哪些肖像的画家死了。

It's supposed to mean: "The artist who painted those portraits that you found is dead."

I'm sure the sentence probably sounds unnatural, but is it grammatically correct? If not, please suggest an alternative sentence containing two relative clauses.

谢谢你们！

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I don’t understand this sentence, so it’s not grammatically correct.
What you want to say, it’s a long sentence with two things.
First is the portraits you found is painted by a artist.
Second is the artist is dead.
It’s a little difficult to tell this two things in one sentence in Chinese.
I could try to say:
你找到的那些画的作者死了。
Although 画家 is more correct than 作者 here，
It’s kind of weird in pronunciation in Chinese,
你找到的那些画的画家已经死了，this would confused me，“那些画的作者” is better than “那些画的画家”。

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你好

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Hello. are you looking for someone to speak Chinese to?

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你找到的那些肖像画，画家已经死了。