The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 79

The African magician had a younger brother, who was, if possible, more wicked and more cunning than himself.

Who acts: African magician, younger brother · What happens: have, be · To what, where: younger brother

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (African magician, younger brother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
2	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 magician	amod
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 brother	det
6	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 possible	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 possible	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 possible	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 possible	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 possible	mark
13	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brother	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wicked	punct
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 wicked	advmod
16	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cunning	cc
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 cunning	advmod
19	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wicked	conj
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 himself	case
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 wicked	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the African magician	a younger brother					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a younger brother					possible property	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: «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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