break-45.1
Members
Roles
- Agent
[+int_control]
- Patient
[+solid]
- Instrument
[+solid]
Frames
- Basic Transitive Causative
- ex: "Tony broke the window"
sym: Agent V Patient
sem: cause(Agent, E)
contact(during(E), ?Instrument, Patient)
degradation_material_integrity(result(E), Patient)
physical_form(result(E), Form, Patient)
- NP-PP Instrument-PP
- ex: "Tony broke the window with a hammer"
sym: Agent V Patient with Instrument
sem: cause(Agent, E)
contact(during(E), Instrument, Patient)
degradation_material_integrity(result(E), Patient)
physical_form(result(E), Form, Patient)
use(during(E), Agent, Instrument)
- Intransitive Inchoative
- ex: "The window broke"
sym: Patient V
sem: degradation_material_integrity(result(E), Patient)
physical_form(result(E), Form, Patient)
- Middle Construction
- ex: "Crystal vases break easily"
sym: Patient V
sem: property(Patient, Prop)
Adv(Prop)
- Instrument Subject Alternation
- ex: "The hammer broke the window"
sym: Instrument V Patient
sem: contact(during(E), Instrument, Patient)
degradation_material_integrity(result(E), Patient)
physical_form(result(E), Form, Patient)
- NP-ADJP Resultative
- ex: "Tony broke the piggy bank open"
sym: Agent V Patient
sem: cause(Agent, E)
contact(during(E), ?Instrument, Patient)
degradation_material_integrity(result(E), Patient)
physical_form(result(E), Form, Patient)
Pred(result(E), Patient)
- NP-ADJP-PP Resultative, Instrument-PP
- ex: "Tony broke the piggy bank open with a hammer"
sym: Agent V Patient with Instrument
sem: cause(Agent, E)
contact(during(E), Instrument, Patient)
degradation_material_integrity(result(E), Patient)
physical_form(result(E), Form, Patient)
Pred(result(E), Patient)
use(during(E), Agent, Instrument)
- NP-PP Result-PP
- ex: "Tony broke the glass to pieces"
sym: Agent V Patient to into Oblique
sem: cause(Agent, E)
contact(during(E), ?Instrument, Patient)
degradation_material_integrity(result(E), Patient)
physical_form(result(E), Form, Patient)
Pred(result(E), Patient)
- NP-PP-PP Result-PP, Instrument-PP
- ex: "Tony broke the glass to pieces with a hammer"
sym: Agent V Patient to into Oblique with Instrument
sem: cause(Agent, E)
contact(during(E), Instrument, Patient)
degradation_material_integrity(result(E), Patient)
physical_form(result(E), Form, Patient)
Pred(result(E), Patient)
use(during(E), Agent, Instrument)
- PP Result-PP
- ex: "The glass broke into a thousand pieces."
sym: Patient V to into Oblique
sem: degradation_material_integrity(result(E), Patient)
Pred(result(E), Patient)