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title: chaste — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «chaste» in the school dictionary: Chaste means pure and faithful, especially in marriage. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# chaste

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**Who acts:** Chaste, chaste princess, marriage, Their · **What happens:** mean, stay, be, marry, tell · **To what, where:** tale, chaste · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«chaste» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 3 examples, 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: [chaste in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/chaste.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: formal, old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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Chaste means pure and faithful, especially in marriage.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:chaste:m1:1
# text = Chaste means pure and faithful, especially in marriage.
1	Chaste	chaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Chaste |  |  |  |  | pure *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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Chaste means plain and simple, without decoration.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:chaste:m2:1
# text = Chaste means plain and simple, without decoration.
1	Chaste	chaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	decoration	decoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Chaste |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The chaste princess stayed faithful to her husband.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:chaste:x1:1
# text = The chaste princess stayed faithful to her husband.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chaste	chaste	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | the chaste princess |  |  |  |  | to princess's husband; faithful *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Their marriage was chaste and happy.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:chaste:x2:1
# text = Their marriage was chaste and happy.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	chaste	chaste	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Their marriage |  |  |  |  | chaste *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Their marriage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** |  | Their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The tale is told in a chaste, plain style.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:chaste:x3:1
# text = The tale is told in a chaste, plain style.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chaste	chaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the tale |  | a chaste |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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**Text:** the school 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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