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title: I have seen them prove true to the last word while he was living; an… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 6

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

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

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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.

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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:pg7128:14:6
# text = I have seen them prove true to the last word while he was living; and how has he fixed my horoscope! '
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	horoscope	horoscope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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