Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 16

Christians see wedding vows, "for better, for worse", as a lifelong promise made with God's help; researchers say honesty and forgiveness matter most in long marriages.

Who acts: Christians, researchers, honesty, God · What happens: see, make, say, matter, help · To what, where: wedding vows, lifelong promise, long marriages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Vows, oaths and promises in faith» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christians, researchers, honesty, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vows	compound
4	vows	vow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 vows	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 better	case
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 vows	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 worse	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 worse	case
11	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 see	parataxis
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 worse	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 promise	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 promise	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 promise	det
16	lifelong	lifelong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 promise	amod
17	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 promise	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 help	case
20	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 help	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 God	case
22	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
24	researchers	researcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 say	nsubj
25	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	parataxis
26	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 matter	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 forgiveness	cc
28	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 honesty	conj
29	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 say	ccomp
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 matter	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 marriages	case
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 marriages	amod
33	marriages	marriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 matter	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	Christians	wedding vows		for better; as a lifelong promise	tree rules
2	make	participle		a lifelong promise not said here		with God's help	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	say speech: assert	present	researchers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	matter	present	honesty and forgiveness		long marriages		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	help		God				nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:religion-ethics:088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.lesson:16.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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