The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 108

There was another roar of laughter, for that is an old joke among elephant-catchers, and it means just never.

Who acts: that, laughter · What happens: be, mean, roar

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, laughter), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 means	nsubj
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 roar	det
4	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 laughter	case
6	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roar	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 joke	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	13 joke	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 joke	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 joke	cop
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 joke	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 joke	amod
13	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
14	among	among	ADP	_	17 catchers	case
15	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 catchers	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 elephant	punct
17	catchers	catcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 joke	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 means	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 means	nsubj
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 never	advmod
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 means	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	that	for a old joke; among elephant catchers	tree rules
2	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent never=Topic
3	roar		laughter		nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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