---
title: vestment — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «vestment» in the school dictionary: A vestment is a long robe or piece of clothing worn by a priest or other church person during a religious service or ceremony. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vestment/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/) / [V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/) / vestment

# vestment

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** vestment, sacerdotal vestments · **What happens:** be, wear, distinguish · **To what, where:** long robe, clothing, priests

<!-- .vabout -->
«vestment» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, 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: [vestment in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/vestment.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A vestment is a long robe or piece of clothing worn by a priest or other church person during a religious service or ceremony.

<!-- fold The tree, 24 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:vestment:m1:1
# text = A vestment is a long robe or piece of clothing worn by a priest or other church person during a religious service or ceremony.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vestment	vestment	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	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a vestment | a long robe or piece of clothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | participle |  | clothing *not said here* |  |  | during a religious service or ceremony | by a priest or other church person | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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 -->
In ancient times the priests were distinguished by their sacerdotal vestments, and by their piety and wisdom.

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:vestment:x1:1
# text = In ancient times the priests were distinguished by their sacerdotal vestments, and by their piety and wisdom.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sacerdotal	sacerdotal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	vestments	vestment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	piety	piety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distinguish** | past · passive | priests's sacerdotal vestments | the priests |  |  | time |  | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute subject=Theme |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [vestigial](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vestigial/)
- next →: [vet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vet/)
- ↑ back to [V in school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/)