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title: saintly — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «saintly» in the school dictionary: Very good and holy, like a saint. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# saintly

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**Who acts:** saintly old monk, pious man, kindness · **What happens:** feed, say, help · **To what, where:** poor, king, everyone, village · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Very good and holy, like a saint.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:saintly:m1:1
# text = Very good and holy, like a saint.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The saintly old monk fed the poor.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:saintly:x1:1
# text = The saintly old monk fed the poor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	saintly	saintly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 | **feed** | past | the saintly old monk | the poor |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Recipient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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«A pious, saintly man,» said the king.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:saintly:x2:1
# text = «A pious, saintly man,» said the king.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	saintly	saintly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a pious man | the king |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Her saintly kindness helped everyone in the village.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:saintly:x3:1
# text = Her saintly kindness helped everyone in the village.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	saintly	saintly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	village	village	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 | **help** | past | Her kindness |  | everyone | the village |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=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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