Manners and kindness, sentence 19
Unkind words can hurt someone for a long time, much longer than a scratch.
Who acts: Unkind words · What happens: hurt · To what, where: someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» of the everyday 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 (Unkind words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurt | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 longer | advmod |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 scratch | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 scratch | det |
| 15 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 longer | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | can | Unkind words | someone | time | long property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=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, 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:everyday:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:19.
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): no change. 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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