betrothal

Who acts: betrothal, church · What happens: be, promise, marry, engage, come, bell · To what, where: formal agreement, two people, marriage, place

«betrothal» 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: betrothal in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A betrothal is a formal agreement or promise to marry; the time when two people are engaged to be married.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 betrothal	det
2	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agreement	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 agreement	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 agreement	det
5	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 agreement	amod
6	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 promise	cc
8	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 agreement	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 promise	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agreement	conj
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 engaged	mark
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 people	nummod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 engaged	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 engaged	aux:pass
18	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 time	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 married	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 married	aux:pass
21	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 engaged	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 agreement	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a betrothal	a formal agreement and the time	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	infinitive	a betrothal not said here		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	a betrothal not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	engage	present · passive		two people	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
5	marry	to-infinitive · passive			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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

Immediately after the betrothal came the marriage.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 betrothal	det
4	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 marriage	det
7	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the betrothal	the marriage				immediately property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location marriage=Theme

Example 2

The church bells rang for the betrothal.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 church	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bells	nsubj
3	bells	bell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bells	ccomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 betrothal	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 betrothal	det
7	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rang	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bell	present	the church						tree rules
2	ring	past	the church not said here					for the betrothal	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 3

The betrothal took place yesterday evening.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 betrothal	det
2	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evening	compound
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl:unmarked
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the betrothal	place			evening		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

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