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title: Christians see marriage as a lifelong promise. — Weddings, funerals and the people of the church · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians see marriage as a lifelong promise. Who acts: Christians. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Weddings, funerals and the people of the church, sentence 7

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Christians see marriage as a lifelong promise.

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**Who acts:** Christians · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** marriage

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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 (Christians), 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:7
# text = Christians see marriage as a lifelong promise.
# 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): no change
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lifelong	lifelong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Christians | marriage |  |  |  | as a lifelong promise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer marriage=Stimulus as promise=Attribute |

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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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**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): no change. **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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