Assertion: marriage's purpose | /r/CapableOf | add new members
Facets:
value: for the lower classes
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to the family's workforce
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The purposes of marriage in the medieval and Edo periods was to form alliances between families, to relieve the family of its female dependents, to perpetuate the family line, and, especially for the lower classes, to add new members to the family's workforce.