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Members

Roles

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)