Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 17

The moment they come out on the table they must be wrapped up in the cloth with the greatest expedition and carried away and killed, for if this is not done, they will always be ready at the slightest alarm to climb back into the ear by the threads which they have left suspended behind them.”

Who acts: Thunderstorms, threads · What happens: come out, wrap up, carry away, kill, not do, be · To what, where: Thunderstorms, table, this, slightest alarm, ear, threads

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thunderstorms, threads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 table	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrapped	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wrapped	nsubj:pass
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 wrapped	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 wrapped	aux:pass
12	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 come	parataxis
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 wrapped	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 cloth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cloth	det
16	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrapped	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 expedition	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 expedition	det
19	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 expedition	amod
20	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cloth	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carried	cc
22	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wrapped	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 carried	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 killed	cc
25	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 carried	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 done	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	32 done	case
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 done	mark
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 done	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux:pass
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 done	advmod
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 killed	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ready	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ready	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 ready	aux
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	38 ready	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 ready	cop
38	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 carried	conj
39	at	at	ADP	_	42 alarm	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 alarm	det
41	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 alarm	amod
42	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ready	obl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 climb	mark
44	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 carried	advcl
45	back	back	ADV	_	44 climb	advmod
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 ear	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ear	det
48	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 climb	obl
49	by	by	ADP	_	51 threads	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 threads	det
51	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 climb	obl
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 left	nsubj:pass
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 left	nsubj
54	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 left	aux
55	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 threads	acl:relcl
56	suspended	suspend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 left	xcomp
57	behind	behind	ADP	_	58 them	case
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 suspended	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	Thunderstorms = thunderstorm			moment	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	wrap up	must · passive		Thunderstorms = thunderstorm	the table		in the cloth with the greatest expedition	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on table=Destination
3	carry away	past					away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	kill	past						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	not do a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	is	future	Thunderstorms = thunderstorm		the slightest alarm		always, ready property	tree rules
7	climb back	to-infinitive			the ear		by the threads	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ear=Destination
8	leave	present · perfect · passive		the threads			Thunderstorms = thunderstorm nsubj	tree rules
9	suspend	participle	the threads not said here				behind Thunderstorms = thunderstorm	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location

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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 17

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 17