The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 62
The whisper of his name makes their wicked tails cold.
Who acts: whisper · What happens: make, whisper, name · To what, where: wicked tails, name
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.
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whisper | det |
| 2 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 name | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whisper | nmod |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tails | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tails | amod |
| 9 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 makes | obj |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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: «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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