Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 23
Can a mortal look down, without giddiness and stupifaction, in the vast abyss of Eternal Wisdom?
To what, where: mortal look
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 look | det |
| 3 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | amod |
| 4 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 giddiness | punct |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 giddiness | case |
| 8 | giddiness | giddiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stupifaction | cc |
| 10 | stupifaction | stupifaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giddiness | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 abyss | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 abyss | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 abyss | det |
| 14 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 abyss | amod |
| 15 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Wisdom | case |
| 17 | Eternal | Eternal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Wisdom | compound |
| 18 | Wisdom | Wisdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 abyss | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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