Businesses

Definition:

A Proprietor owns or runs a Business which provides a Product (which may be goods or services).

FEs:

Core:
Business [Busn]
Business identifies the company or establishment. This may be the target itself or the Business_Name if it is an appositive not set off with commas (i.e. restrictive):
       The electronics FIRM went bankrupt.
  In the appositive case, the name may also be tagged Business_Name on a second annotation layer.
       1st Layer: The Japanese electronics FIRM Sony is growing rapidly.
 
       2nd Layer: The Japanese electronics FIRM Sony is growing rapidly.
 
Non-Core:

Business_Name [BName]
The name of the Business when it appears in an appositive set off by commas (non-restrictive):
       My clothing COMPANY, Togs, is doing well.
 

Descriptor [Desc]
Descriptor indicates other characteristics of the business besides its Product and Proprietor.
       Chris runs a small COMPANY in Idaho.
 
       I work for a non-profit arts COMPANY.
 

Place [Place]
Semantic Type
Locative_relation
This FE identifies the Place in which the business is located.
       Chris's BUSINESS in Idaho is thriving.
 
       Local COMPANIES are looking for more and more Spanish-speaking employees.
 

Product [Prd]
Product identifies the product or service provided by the business.
       Josh runs a copier toner BUSINESS.
 

Proprietor [Pptr]
Proprietor is the owner or chief participant in the business.
       I worked in Goldberg's legal PRACTICE .
 
       I didn't want to go into the family BUSINESS.
 

Service_provider [ServP]
When a Business is described in terms of the professionals who work to produce the product or service, use Service_provider.
        John works as an office assistant for a FIRM of accountants.
 

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Uses: Commerce_scenario
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Lexical Units

comercio.n, compañía.n, empresa.n, establecimiento.n, negocio.n, tienda.n

Created by ejwood on Wed Jul 03 10:18:46 CEST 2002