Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 11

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, our · What happens: insist, share, be, get, torment, joy · To what, where: personal torment, first step, joy

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 insist	mark
2	insist	insist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 step	advcl
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 people	case
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 insist	obl
6	sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 people	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 torment	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 torment	nmod:poss
9	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 torment	amod
10	torment	torment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sharing	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 step	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 step	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 step	amod
14	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	towards	towards	SCONJ	_	16 insisting	mark
16	insisting	insist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 step	acl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 share	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 share	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 share	aux
20	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 insisting	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 joy	case
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 joy	nmod:poss
23	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 share	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 insist	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 insist	mark
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 insist	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 insist	aux
28	insist	insist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 share	parataxis
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 get	advmod
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
31	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 insist	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 step	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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.

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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