Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 6

I have seen them prove true to the last word while he was living; and how has he fixed my horoscope! '

Who acts: I, sayings, Soothsayer · What happens: see, prove, live, fix · To what, where: sayings, horoscope

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sayings, Soothsayer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seen	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 fixed	advcl
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seen	obj
5	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seen	xcomp
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prove	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 word	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 word	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prove	obl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 living	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 living	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 living	aux
14	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 prove	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 has	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 has	advmod
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fixed	aux
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fixed	nsubj
20	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 horoscope	nmod:poss
22	horoscope	horoscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fixed	obj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 fixed	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 fixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	I	sayings = saying		tree rules
2	prove	infinitive	sayings = saying not said here		to the last word; true property	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to word=Experiencer
3	live	past · progressive	Soothsayer			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fix	present · perfect	Soothsayer	my horoscope		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent horoscope=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: «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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