Nearby to what, it is important. Tenses within sumti = are interpreted relative to the bridi. (CLL 10.13.) So, {lo vi broda} proba= bly refers to something that is nearby to the place where the bridi happens= at the time of the bridi happens. Few examples.

lo remna vu pensi l= o vu dinju
Far away, a man thinks about a remote building.

The bu= ilding is far away from the place of thinking, but may be the building whic= h the speaker is in.

lo remna pu viska lo ca bajra
A man saw a ru= nner.

The runner was running at the time it was seen by the man, but= now may be resting.

an= d hence {lo pu broda} refers to the past broda

Tha= t would be undesirable in many cases. Most often we deal with present thing= s. We cannot, for example, touch things from the past.

mi ca tavla l= o pu bajra
I now talk to the one who was running.

It does not mea= n that I send my phrases into the past, so the runner in the past can hear = me. The sentence does not say that there is a connection between the event = of talking and the event of running. I just give a hint that the one I am n= ow talking to was running. Suppose I know that the reader of my sentence sa= w that man running yesterday, so that would be a good hint.

<= br>

Otherwise, {lo vi broda} wo= uld refer to something that is a broda on the condition that it is close, and could morph into something else if it=20 happens to be somewhere else.

{lo vi broda} says t= hat the referent, call it x, "fits" the first place of the selbri {vi broda= }, i.e. {xy vi broda} is true. Let's use an example.

mi catlu lo vi = mlatu
I look at a nearby cat.

{lo vi mlatu} says that the referen= t (x) is a cat that is near to the looker, the reference point of the bridi= . Another cat (y) that is far away from me cannot be the referent of {lo vi= mlatu}, because {.y bu vi mlatu} is false. The idea is not that x can morp= h into y, but that from x and y it selects x based on their location.

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