Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 12

In this way they were both useful and decorative.

Who acts: meats · What happens: be · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meats), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 useful	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 useful	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 useful	cop
6	both	both	ADV	_	7 useful	advmod
7	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 decorative	cc
9	decorative	decorative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 useful	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 useful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	meats = meat			this way		both, useful property	tree rules
2	be		meats = meat not said here						tree rules

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: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (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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