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title: Can a mind that sees not infinitely, perfectly comprehend any thing… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Can a mind that sees not infinitely, perfectly comprehend any thing among an infinity of objects mutually relative? Who acts: mind. 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 24

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Can a mind that sees not infinitely, perfectly comprehend any thing among an infinity of objects mutually relative?

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**Who acts:** mind · **What happens:** not see, comprehend · **To what, where:** thing

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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: who acts (mind), 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:pg62868:20:24
# text = Can a mind that sees not infinitely, perfectly comprehend any thing among an infinity of objects mutually relative?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	infinitely	infinitely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	infinity	infinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	mutually	mutually	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | present | a mind |  |  |  |  | infinitely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **comprehend** | can | a mind | any thing |  |  |  | among a infinity of objects  relative; perfectly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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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.

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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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