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title: The whisper of his name makes their wicked tails cold. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The whisper of his name makes their wicked tails cold. Who acts: whisper. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 62

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The whisper of his name makes their wicked tails cold.

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**Who acts:** whisper · **What happens:** make, whisper, name · **To what, where:** wicked tails, name

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whisper), 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:pg236:5:62
# text = The whisper of his name makes their wicked tails cold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the whisper of whisper's name | monkeys's wicked tails |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tail=Product |
| 2 | **whisper** |  |  | whisper's name |  |  |  |  | nom whisper «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **name** |  | whisper |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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:** «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (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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