Assertion: handmaid | /r/CapableOf | bear child
Facets:
value: for the most powerful families
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for their barren wives
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for the matriarchs
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for wealthy men
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for a commander
type: PURPOSE
value: successfully
type: MANNER
value: in six years
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: If a handmaid is unable to bear a child for a commander in six years (that's three two-year assignments with three different commanders), she is classified as an unwomen.
text: If the handmaid has a child, it belongs to the commander and his wife — not the woman who gave birth to the baby.
text: Proved fertile, she is considered an important commodity and has been placed as a "handmaid" in the home of "the Commander" and his wife Serena Joy, to bear a child for them (Serena Joy is believed to be infertile).
text: Handmaids who successfully bear children continue to live at their commander's house until their children are weaned, at which point they are sent to a new assignment.
text: Fertility has sharply declined due to pollution, and some women—including Offred, the book’s narrator—are conscripted as “handmaids” to bear children for the most powerful families.
text: For example: The handmaids Bilhah and Zilpah bear children for the matriarchs Leah and Rachel.
text: In the book, a totalitarian American regime strips women of their rights and forces those who are fertile to become “handmaids” to bear children for wealthy men and their barren wives.
text: Fertility has sharply declined due to pollution, and some women-including Offred, the book’s narrator-are conscripted as “handmaids” to bear children for the most powerful families.