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title: It is impossible to imagine the human mind independently imagining s… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is impossible to imagine the human mind independently imagining such bizarre convolutions. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 25

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It is impossible to imagine the human mind independently imagining such bizarre convolutions.

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**What happens:** be, imagine · **To what, where:** human mind, such bizarre convolutions

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin.. 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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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:35:25
# text = It is impossible to imagine the human mind independently imagining such bizarre convolutions.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	independently	independently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	imagining	imagine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	bizarre	bizarre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	convolutions	convolution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **imagine** | to-infinitive |  | the human mind |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mind=Theme |
| 3 | **imagine** | gerund |  | such bizarre convolutions |  |  |  | independently *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot convolution=Theme |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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