can be that the node itself has an error, or one of its descendants
has an error.
-@cindex tree-sitter live node
+@cindex tree-sitter, live parsing node
@cindex live node, tree-sitter
-A node is ``live'' if its parser is not deleted, and the buffer it
-belongs to is live.
+A node is considered @dfn{live} if its parser is not deleted, and the
+buffer to which it belongs to is a live buffer (@pxref{Killing Buffers}).
@defun treesit-node-check node property
-This function checks if @var{node} has the specified @var{property}.
-@var{property} can be @code{named}, @code{missing}, @code{extra},
-@code{outdated}, @code{has-error}, or @code{live}.
+This function returns non-@code{nil} if @var{node} has the specified
+@var{property}. @var{property} can be @code{named}, @code{missing},
+@code{extra}, @code{outdated}, @code{has-error}, or @code{live}.
@end defun
@defun treesit-node-type node