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title: priestess — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «priestess» in the school dictionary: A woman who serves a god or goddess in a temple and leads the religious ceremonies. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# priestess

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**Who acts:** woman, Io, priestesses, fire, priestess · **What happens:** serve, lead, be, keep, burn, enter · **To what, where:** god, temple, religious ceremonies, priestess, fire

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«priestess» in the school dictionary: its meaning 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: [priestess in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/priestess.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A woman who serves a god or goddess in a temple and leads the religious ceremonies.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:priestess:m1:1
# text = A woman who serves a god or goddess in a temple and leads the religious ceremonies.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | present | a woman | a god or goddess |  | a temple |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent god=Value in temple=Location |
| 2 | **lead** | present | a woman *not said here* | the religious ceremonies |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Theme |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Io was a priestess of Hera.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:priestess:x1:1
# text = Io was a priestess of Hera.
1	Io	Io	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	priestess	priestess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Hera	Hera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	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 a** | past | Io | a priestess |  |  |  | of Hera | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The priestesses kept the fire burning day and night.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:priestess:x2:1
# text = The priestesses kept the fire burning day and night.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priestesses	priestess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the priestesses | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | the fire *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Only a priestess could enter the temple.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:priestess:x3:1
# text = Only a priestess could enter the temple.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	priestess	priestess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | could | a priestess | the temple |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme temple=Destination |

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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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