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title: To insist on other people sharing in our personal torment is the fir… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To insist on other people sharing in our personal torment is the first step towards insisting that they shall share in our joy, as we shall insist when we get it. Who acts: other people, first step, people, we. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tr
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 11

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To insist on other people sharing in our personal torment is the first step towards insisting that they shall share in our joy, as we shall insist when we get it.

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**Who acts:** other people, first step, people, we, our · **What happens:** insist, share, be, get, torment, joy · **To what, where:** personal torment, first step, joy

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other people, first step, people, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:69:11
# text = To insist on other people sharing in our personal torment is the first step towards insisting that they shall share in our joy, as we shall insist when we get it.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	insist	insist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	torment	torment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	towards	towards	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	insisting	insist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	insist	insist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insist** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | on other people | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **share** | gerund | other people *not said here* |  |  | our personal torment |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the first step |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **insist** *speech: other* | gerund | the first step *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **share** | shall | people |  |  | our joy |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **insist** *speech: other* | shall | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **get** | present | we | joy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 8 | **torment** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom torment «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **joy** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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