---
title: But close to the bungalow are a number of ancient tombs; and as no r… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the p
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/13/5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/) / [The Makli Hill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/13/) / 5

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
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.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** be, find, prove, record · **To what, where:** number, record, walls, owners

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:13:5
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	csubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bungalow	bungalow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	prove	prove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
35	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/13/4/)
- next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/13/6/)
- ↑ back to [The Makli Hill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/13/)