Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 5

But close to the bungalow are a number of ancient tombs; and as no record of their owners is to be found on the walls, a few facts about them may prove interesting to future visitors.

What happens: be, find, prove, record · To what, where: number, record, walls, owners

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 close	cc
2	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 number	csubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 bungalow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bungalow	det
5	bungalow	bungalow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 close	obl
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 number	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tombs	case
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tombs	amod
11	tombs	tomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 prove	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 prove	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 found	mark
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 record	det
16	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	nsubj:pass
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 owners	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 owners	nmod:poss
19	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 record	nmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux:pass
21	to	to	PART	_	23 found	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 found	aux:pass
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 prove	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 walls	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 walls	det
26	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 found	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 facts	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 facts	det
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 facts	amod
30	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 walls	conj
31	about	about	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 facts	nmod
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 prove	aux
34	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 number	parataxis
35	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 prove	xcomp
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 visitors	case
37	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 visitors	amod
38	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 interesting	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 number	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a number		of ancient tombs	tree rules
2	find	present · passive	no record of tombs's owners	the walls and a few facts about facts		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	prove	may			interesting property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	record		tombs's owners			nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient

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.

Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 5

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 5