Watching Demonstrating a type of grammar analysis (dependency trees)
Based on your reply, it seems like you have some idea of what counts as «future self» that’s different than «yourself at any point in the future (as opposed to yourself in the current moment)», but I’m not sure how you’re thinking about it exactly.
I hadn’t come across a nonfinite verb acting as an adverb before, so I assumed “based” had to have a conjunction to join it into the sentence. I also thought that since it ended in “-ed”, it had to be a participle if it was a nonfinite verb. Therefore I thought it would have to act as an adjective. Although I thought it seemed more like it was modifying the “like” group or “seems”. I think it modifying “seems” makes most sense.
Checking the Nonfinite Verbs blog:
In terms of the roles words have in a sentence, nonfinite verbs function as a noun or modifier.
Participles are modifiers which normally end in “ing” (present tense) or “ed” (past tense).
So participles can act as adverbs and modify verbs? There is disagreement in participle as adverb thread, but I think in the first example “screaming” is acting as an adverb:
She ran screaming out of [the] room.
vil posted more examples.
Now for “like”: I assume @Elliot thinks “like” is a relative adverb here. I couldn’t find a definition for it as a relative adverb, but It was definitely connecting two clauses so I concluded it had to be a conjunction. However the New Oxford Dictionary entry for “like” as conjunction doesn’t match the meaning of the sentence:
conjunction
1 in the same way that; as: people who change countries like they change clothes.
2 as though; as if: I felt like I’d been kicked by a camel.
I couldn’t really find a single dictionary entry that I thought fit the use of “like” here. I think it tells us what it seems like. I think my tree says that “it seems” is similar to “you have some idea…”, which isn’t what the sentence is saying. I think having “like” modify “seems” gives the meaning of what it seems like. So I like the way Elliot had it more.
Question based analysis:
What’s the action? Seems
What seems? It
It seems what? Like
Like what? You have some idea…
I did consider to have it like Elliot had it, but I could only find definitions of “opposed” as an adjective. New Oxford Dictionary had a definition for it as a phrase:
as opposed to
distinguished from or in contrast with: an approach that is theoretical as opposed to practical.
I thought that matched the meaning. This phrase seems like it could either be acting as a conjunction or a relative adverb/pronoun. It has to contrast two things at least.
I think “as opposed to” could either modify “than”, as conjunction, or "yourself, as relative pronoun.
I think it has to be single node instead of three nodes because “opposed” can’t be a noun.
The adverbs should modify “sure” like Elliot has it.