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title: Can a mortal look down, without giddiness and stupifaction, in the v… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Can a mortal look down, without giddiness and stupifaction, in the vast abyss of Eternal Wisdom? A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 23

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Can a mortal look down, without giddiness and stupifaction, in the vast abyss of Eternal Wisdom?

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**To what, where:** mortal look

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:20:23
# text = Can a mortal look down, without giddiness and stupifaction, in the vast abyss of Eternal Wisdom?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	giddiness	giddiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stupifaction	stupifaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Eternal	Eternal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Wisdom	Wisdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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