suffocate-40.7

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Transitive Causative variant
ex: "The pirates drowned the sailor"
sym: Agent V Theme
sem: cause(Agent, E) suffocate(during(E), Theme)

Intransitive Inchoative variant
ex: "The sailor drowned"
sym: Theme V
sem: suffocate(during(E), Theme)

PP Result-PP
ex: "He choked/suffocated to death"
sym: Theme V to Oblique
sem: suffocate(during(E), Theme) Pred(result(E), Theme)

NP-PP Result-PP
ex: "The pirate choked the sailor to death"
sym: Agent V Theme to Oblique
sem: cause(Agent, E) suffocate(during(E), Theme) Pred(result(E), Theme)