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Sentences
Homer preens.
Homer loves his blanket.
Homer eats.
Homer eats crap.
The fat bald guy eats crap.
The fat bald guy eats vast quantities of arteryhardening crap.
The fat bald guy throws the dog a bone.
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Verbs
Homer preens.
Homer loves his blanket.
Homer eats.
Homer eats crap.
The fat bald guy eats crap.
The fat bald guy eats vast quantities of arteryhardening crap.
The fat bald guy throws the dog a bone .
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Arguments
Homer preens. V1
Homer loves his blanket. V2
Homer eats. V1
Homer eats crap. V2
The fat bald guy eats crap. V2
The fat bald guy eats vast quantities of arteryV2
hardening crap.
The fat bald guy throws the dog a bone.
V3
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Sentences
Homer is sexy.
Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy.
Homer is in the kitchen.
Homer goes to the bar.
The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper.
Marge bakes a cake for Maggie.
Bart throws a bone to the dog
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Verbs
Homer is sexy.
Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy.
Homer is in the kitchen.
Homer goes to the bar.
The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper.
Marge bakes a cake for Maggie.
Bart throws a bone to the dog.
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Arguments
Homer is sexy. VCOP
Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy. VCOP
Homer is in the kitchen. VCOP
Homer goes to the bar. VCOMP
The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper. V2
Marge bakes a cake for Maggie. VT-COMP
Bart throws a bone at the dog. VT-C0MP
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Semantic roles
Patient Essive
Homer is sexy.
Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy.
Homer is in the kitchen.
Homer goes to the bar.
The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper.
Marge bakes a cake for Maggie.
Bart throws a bone at the dog.
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Semantic roles
Homer
Patientis sexy.
Essive
Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy.
Homer is in the kitchen.
Homer goes to the bar.
The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper.
Marge bakes a cake for Maggie.
Bart throws a bone at the dog.
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Semantic roles
Homer is sexy.
Homer
operations guy.
Patientis a nuclear-plant
Essive
Homer is in the kitchen.
Homer goes to the bar.
The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper.
Marge bakes a cake for Maggie.
Bart throws a bone at the dog.
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Semantic roles
Homer is sexy.
Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy.
Agent is in the Goal
Homer
kitchen.
Homer goes to the bar.
The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper.
Marge bakes a cake for Maggie.
Bart throws a bone at the dog.
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Semantic roles
Homer is sexy.
Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy.
Homer is in the kitchen.
Patient
Possessor
Homer
goes to the bar.
The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper.
Marge bakes a cake for Maggie.
Bart throws a bone at the dog.
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Semantic roles
Homer is sexy.
Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy.
Homer is in the kitchen.
Homer goes to the bar.
Agent
Patient
Beneficiary
The
collar belongs
to Santa’s
Little Helper.
Marge bakes a cake for Maggie.
Bart throws a bone at the dog.
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Semantic roles
Homer is sexy.
Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy.
Homer is in the kitchen.
Homer goes to the bar.
The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper.
Agent
Marge bakesPatient
a cake forGoal
Maggie.
Bart throws a bone at the dog.
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Semantic Roles
Role
Definition
Agent
The entity that performs the action
Patient
The entity undergoing the action; the object of the experience; the
sponsor of a state
Experiencer
The entity that experiences the state
Beneficiary
The entity benefits something from the event
Essive
Anything predicated by the (main) verb “to be”
Possessor
The entity who possesses something.
Source
The starting point for a movement
Goal
The end point for a movement
Path
The route over which movement happens
Time
The time an event occurs
Location
The place an event happens
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Event schemata
Being
Happening
Doing
Experiencing
Having
Moving
Transferring
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Semantic Roles
Role
Event Schemata
Agent
DOING, MOVING, TRANSFERRING
Patient
BEING, HAPPENING, DOING, EXPERIENCING, HAVING, MOVING, TRANSFERRING
Experiencer
EXPERIENCING
Beneficiary
TRANSFERRING
Essive
BEING
Possessor
HAVING, TRANSFERRING
Source
Goal
MOVING, TRANSFERRING
Path
Time
Location
ALL
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Simplex event schemata
Being
Happening
Doing
Experiencing
Having
Subject NP ≈ Patient
Complement ≈ Essive
E.g.s
Homer is large.
Homer is a safety inspector. VCOP
Homer is in the shower.
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Simplex event schemata
Being
Happening
Doing
Experiencing
Having
Subject NP ≈ Patient
E.g.s
Homer fell asleep.
Homer ages.
Homer stumbled.
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Simplex event schemata
Being
Happening
Doing
Experiencing
Having
Subject NP ≈ Agent
E.g.s
Homer eats.
Homer yells.
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Simplex event schemata
Being
Happening
Doing
Experiencing
Having
Subject NP ≈ Agent
(Object NP ≈ Patient)
E.g.s
Homer eats.
Homer yells.
Homer catches Bart.
Homer kissed Marge.
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Simplex event schemata
Being
Happening
Doing
Experiencing
Having
Subject NP ≈ Experiencer
(Object NP ≈ Patient)
E.g.s
Homer laments.
V1
Homer loathes Flanders.
Homer saw Chief Wiggum. V2
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Simplex event schemata
Being
Happening
Doing
Experiencing
Having
Subject NP ≈ Experiencer
(Object NP ≈ Patient)
E.g.s
Homer laments.
V1
Homer loathes Flanders.
Homer saw Chief Wiggum. V2
(Contrast: Homer watched Chief
Wiggum.)
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Simplex event schemata
Being
Happening
Doing
Experiencing
Having
Subject NP ≈ Possessor
Object NP ≈ Patient
E.g.s
Homer has three kids.
Homer has a keen sense of smell.
Homer has chicken pox.
V2
Homer owns a dog.
Homer possesses a hatbox.
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Complex event schemata
MovingHappening
Transferring
Simplex occurrence (Happening,
Having, or Doing) with explicit
reference to motion.
Start = Source
End = Goal
Route = Path
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Complex event schemata
MovingHappening
Transferring
Simplex occurrence (Happening,
Having, or Doing) with explicit
reference to motion.
Happening + Source/Path/Goal
Doing + Source/Path/Goal
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Complex event schemata
MovingHappening
Transferring
Happening + Source/Path/Goal
Subj NP ≈ Patient
Complements ≈ Source, Path, Goal
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Complex event schemata
MovingHappening
Transferring
Happening + Source/Path/Goal
E.g.s
Homer staggered home.
Homer staggered home from
Apu’s.
Homer staggered home, down the
sidewalk from Apu’s.
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Complex event schemata
MovingHappening
Transferring
Happening + Source/Path/Goal
Homer staggered home, down the sidewalk from Apu’s.
Patient
Goal
Path
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Complex event schemata
MovingDoing
Transferring
Doing + Source/Path/Goal
E.g.s
Homer climbed out of the window.
Homer climbed up Mount Splashmor
from base camp
to the summit.
Homer ran screaming across the
back yard to Flander’s.
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Complex event schemata
MovingDoing
Transferring
Doing + Source/Path/Goal
Homer ran screaming across the back yard to Flander’s.
Agent
Path
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Complex event schemata
Moving
Transferring
Having
+
Moving
MovingHappening
MovingDoing
A complex
schema already
Happening or Doing
+ Source/Path/Goal
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Complex event schemata
Moving
Transferring
Having
+
MovingHappening
E.g.
V2
Bart found a wallet.
VT-COMP
Homer won $1.76 from the
Springfield Lottery Corporation.
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Complex event schemata
Moving
Transferring
Having
+
MovingHappening
VT-COMP
E.g.
Homer won $1.76 from the SLC.
Having: Possessor
Happening: Beneficiary
Moving:
Goal
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Patient
Patient
Possessor
Patient
Source
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Complex event schemata
Moving
Transferring
Having
+
MovingDoing
E.g.
V2
Homer sold the dog.
Homer sold the dog to Moe. VT-COMP
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Complex event schemata
Moving
Transferring
Having
+
MovingDoing
E.g.
Homer sold the dog.
Having: Possessor
Moving: Source
Doing: Agent
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Patient
Patient
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Complex event schemata
Moving
Transferring
Having
+
MovingDoing
E.g.
Homer sold the dog to Moe.
Having: Possessor
Moving: Source
Doing: Agent
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Possessor
Patient
Goal
Patient
Beneficiary
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Complex event schemata
Moving
Transferring
Having
+
MovingDoing
E.g.
Homer sold Moe the dog.
Having: Possessor Possessor Patient
Moving: Source
Doing: Agent
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Patient
Beneficiary Patient
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Transferring
V3
VT-COMP
Homer sold Moe the dog.
Homer sold the dog to Moe.
Subject
I-Object D-Object
Possessor Possessor Patient
Source
Goal
Patient
Agent
Beneficiary Patient
Subject
Possessor
Source
Agent
D-Object Comp
Patient Possessor
Patient
Goal
Patient Beneficiary
S
S
VP
VP
PP
NP
N
NP
V
NP
N Det N
Homer sold Moe the dog
NP
NP
NP
N
V Det N P
N
Homer sold the dog to Moe
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Syntax
The sentence
the verb and its arguments
the subject and the predicate phrase
Event schemata
simplex
complex (simplex + relocation)
semantic roles
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