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title: shrine — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «shrine» in the school dictionary: A shrine is a holy place, often a small chapel or a tomb, where people go to pray or to honour a saint or god. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# shrine

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**Who acts:** shrine, people, We, hermit · **What happens:** be, go, pray, honour, visit, live · **To what, where:** holy place, saint, shrine, small shrine, flowers

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A shrine is a holy place, often a small chapel or a tomb, where people go to pray or to honour a saint or god.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shrine:m1:1
# text = A shrine is a holy place, often a small chapel or a tomb, where people go to pray or to honour a saint or god.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a shrine | a holy place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pray** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **honour** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | a saint or god |  |  |  |  | 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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
We visited the shrine to pray.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shrine:x1:1
# text = We visited the shrine to pray.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | We | the shrine |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrine=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **pray** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | the shrine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The hermit lived near a small shrine.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shrine:x2:1
# text = The hermit lived near a small shrine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the hermit |  |  | a small shrine |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near shrine=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
People left flowers at the shrine.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:shrine:x3:1
# text = People left flowers at the shrine.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shrine	shrine	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 | **leave** | past | People | flowers |  | the shrine |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flower=Theme at shrine=Location |

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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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