begin-55.1
Members
Roles
- Agent
[+animate]
[+organization]
- Theme
- Instrument
Frames
- TO-INF-SC
- ex: "He began to pack."
sym: Agent V Theme[+sc_to_inf]
sem: begin(E, Theme)
cause(Agent, E)
Subclass begin-55.1-1
Members
Roles
Frames
- ING-SC/BE-ING-SC
- ex: "John began going to the area."
sym: Agent V Theme[+be_sc_ing]
sem: begin(E, Theme)
cause(Agent, E)
- Intransitive Inchoative
- ex: "The storm began."
sym: Theme V
sem: begin(E, Theme)
- Basic Transitive
- ex: "John started the party."
sym: Agent V Theme
sem: begin(E, Theme)
cause(Agent, E)
- PP with-PP
- ex: "The party began with a bang."
sym: Theme V with Instrument
sem: begin(E, Theme)
use(during(E), ?Agent, Instrument)
- NP-PP with-PP
- ex: "I began the party with a speech."
sym: Agent V Theme with Instrument
sem: begin(E, Theme)
use(during(E), Agent, Instrument)
cause(Agent, E)
- NP-PP Oblique-PP
- ex: "We began the campaign by soliciting donations."
sym: Agent V Theme by Oblique
sem: begin(E, Theme)
cause(Agent, E)
manner(during(E), Oblique, Agent)
- Intransitive Instrument Subject
- ex: "A murder began the book."
sym: Instrument V Theme
sem: begin(E, Theme)
use(during(E), ?Agent, Instrument)