The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 108

Still, Amina, it seems to me that there be some among them as sweet to the taste as the flesh of a corpse?"

Who acts: Amina · What happens: seem · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amina), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	6 seems	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seems	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Amina	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seems	nsubj
6	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seems	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 sweet	mark
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 some	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 some	cop
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 sweet	nsubj
13	among	among	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 some	nmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 sweet	case
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seems	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 taste	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 taste	det
19	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sweet	obl
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 flesh	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flesh	det
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seems	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 corpse	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 corpse	det
25	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flesh	nmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 seems	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	Amina		me		still	as the flesh of a corpse	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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