priestess

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

«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.

Meaning 1

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

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 serves	nsubj
4	serves	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 woman	acl:relcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 god	det
6	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 serves	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 goddess	cc
8	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 god	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 temple	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 temple	det
11	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 serves	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 leads	cc
13	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 serves	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ceremonies	det
15	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ceremonies	amod
16	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 leads	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 woman	punct

#	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

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

Io was a priestess of Hera.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Io	Io	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 priestess	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 priestess	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 priestess	det
4	priestess	priestess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Hera	case
6	Hera	Hera	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 priestess	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 priestess	punct

#	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

The priestesses kept the fire burning day and night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 priestesses	det
2	priestesses	priestess	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
6	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fire	acl
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burning	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 night	cc
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

#	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

Only a priestess could enter the temple.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 priestess	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 priestess	det
3	priestess	priestess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enter	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 enter	aux
5	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 temple	det
7	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enter	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 enter	punct

#	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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