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title: magus — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «magus» in the Judaism dictionary: A wise man or priest of ancient Persia who studied the stars and magic; the plural is magi. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# magus

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**Who acts:** wise man, plural · **What happens:** study, be · **To what, where:** stars, magi

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«magus» in the Judaism dictionary: its meaning for a pupil, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [magus in the Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/magus.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A wise man or priest of ancient Persia who studied the stars and magic; the plural is magi.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:magus:m1:1
# text = A wise man or priest of ancient Persia who studied the stars and magic; the plural is magi.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	studied	study	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	plural	plural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	magi	magus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **study** | past | a wise man of ancient Persia or priest | the stars and magic |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the plural | magi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** the Judaism dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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