Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 13
"Hurt people hurt people" is a saying that people in pain sometimes hurt others; it explains but does not excuse, and you can be kind while still saying "stop being mean".
Who acts: people, quiet, you · What happens: hurt, be, explain, not excuse, say, stop · To what, where: people, saying, others · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face» of the reflection 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 (people, quiet, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hurt | punct |
| 2 | Hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | nsubj |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hurt | parataxis |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 saying | det |
| 9 | saying | say | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 hurt | mark |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hurt | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pain | case |
| 13 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 hurt | advmod |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | acl |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hurt | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 explains | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 explains | nsubj |
| 19 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | parataxis |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 excuse | cc |
| 21 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 excuse | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 excuse | advmod |
| 23 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 explains | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 kind | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 kind | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 kind | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 kind | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 kind | cop |
| 29 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 explains | conj |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 32 saying | mark |
| 31 | still | still | ADV | _ | 32 saying | advmod |
| 32 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 kind | advcl |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 stop | punct |
| 34 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 saying | ccomp |
| 35 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 mean | cop |
| 36 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stop | xcomp |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 stop | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt in a quote | past | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | hurt in a quote | past | people | people | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be speech: assert | present | a saying | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hurt | present | people in pain | others | sometimes property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Patient | |||
| 5 | explain speech: assert | present | quiet | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not excuse | present · do-support | quiet not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | can | you | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | still | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 9 | stop in a quote | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 10 | is in a quote | gerund | mean property | tree rules |
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:reflection:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:13.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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