The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 83

There seems to me only one way in which to decide the matter, and that is to wake one after the other and judge which of them expresses the greater admiration for the other."

Who acts: that · What happens: seem, decide, be, judge, express · To what, where: me, matter, one way, greater admiration

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 seems	expl
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seems	obl
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 way	nummod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seems	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 decide	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 decide	mark
11	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 matter	det
13	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 decide	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wake	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wake	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 wake	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wake	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wake	mark
19	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seems	parataxis
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 wake	obj
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 other	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wake	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 judge	cc
25	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wake	conj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 expresses	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 expresses	obl
29	expresses	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 judge	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 admiration	det
31	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 admiration	amod
32	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 expresses	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 other	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 other	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 admiration	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present			me	there			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	decide	to-infinitive		the matter		one way			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent matter=Topic
3	is	present	that				after the other	wake property	tree rules
4	judge	present	that not said here						vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	express	present	that not said here	the greater admiration				of token; for the other	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Destination admiration=Theme

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 Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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