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title: At a church wedding the couple make vows before God and witnesses, «… — Weddings, funerals and the people of the church · tree and pragmatics
description: At a church wedding the couple make vows before God and witnesses, «for better, for worse ... till death us do part». Who acts: couple, us. A sentence of the lesson «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Weddings, funerals and the people of the church, sentence 6

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At a church wedding the couple make vows before God and witnesses, «for better, for worse ... till death us do part».

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**Who acts:** couple, us · **What happens:** make, do · **To what, where:** vows, church wedding, part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» 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 (couple, us), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:6
# text = At a church wedding the couple make vows before God and witnesses, «for better, for worse ... till death us do part».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	witnesses	witness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	parataxis	_	_
20	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
21	till	till	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
25	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the couple | vows |  | a church wedding | before God and witnesses | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | us | part |  |  | till death |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:6`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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