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title: sacrificial — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «sacrificial» in the school dictionary: Used or given as an offering to a god, usually by killing or giving up something valued. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# sacrificial

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**Who acts:** Heracles, priest, farmer · **What happens:** use, give, kill, give up, value, send · **To what, where:** something, sacrificial fire, lamb

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Used or given as an offering to a god, usually by killing or giving up something valued.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sacrificial:m1:1
# text = Used or given as an offering to a god, usually by killing or giving up something valued.
1	Used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
18	valued	value	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as a offering to a god | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **give up** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Source |
| 5 | **value** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Heracles sent for a sacrificial robe.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sacrificial:x1:1
# text = Heracles sent for a sacrificial robe.
1	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sacrificial	sacrificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Heracles |  |  |  |  | for a sacrificial robe | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The priest lit the sacrificial fire.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sacrificial:x2:1
# text = The priest lit the sacrificial fire.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sacrificial	sacrificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | past | the priest | the sacrificial fire |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The farmer chose a lamb for the sacrificial feast.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sacrificial:x3:1
# text = The farmer chose a lamb for the sacrificial feast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sacrificial	sacrificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | the farmer | a lamb |  |  |  | for the sacrificial feast | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme for feast=Beneficiary |

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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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