--- title: Christians see wedding vows, "for better, for worse", as a lifelong… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.lesson:16 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 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 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 vows vow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 parataxis _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 lifelong lifelong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 researchers researcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 26 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 forgiveness forgiveness NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 30 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 29 advmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 marriages marriage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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](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: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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