--- title: "Hurt people hurt people" is a saying that people in pain sometimes… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics description: "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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:13 # text = "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". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 nsubj _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 saying say NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 15 advmod _ _ 15 hurt hurt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 29 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 still still ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 34 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 35 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 cop _ _ 36 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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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