| An Agent causes a Patient to be affected, sometimes by a particular Means or by use of an Instrument. | |
| A professional dishwasher doesn't DO dishes with a rag anymore! | |
| Agent [Agt] Semantic Type Sentient | The conscious entity, generally a person, that performs the intentional act that affects the Patient. | |
| Event [eve] Semantic Type State_of_affairs | This FE identifies the act that the Agent performs intentionally. | |
| Patient [Pat] | Patient is the entity acted on and that may, but need not, undergo a change. | |
| A professional dishwasher DOES dishes one at a time. | ||
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| Degree [Degr] Semantic Type Degree | The extent to which the Patient is affected by the Event. | |
| Event_description [] | This FE describes the event. | |
| Instrument [Ins] Semantic Type Physical_entity | An entity directed by the Agent that interacts with an Patient to accomplish the action indicated by the target. | |
| Manner [Mnr] Semantic Type Manner | Any description of the event which is not covered by more specific FEs, including epistemic modification (probably, presumably, mysteriously), force (hard, softly), secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may also indicate salient characteristics of an Agent that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully). | |
| Means [Mns] Semantic Type State_of_affairs | An intentional action performed by the Agent that accomplishes the action indicated by the target. | |
| Place [Place] Semantic Type Locative_relation | This FE identifies the place where the Agent performs the intentional act. | |
| Purpose [Purp] Semantic Type State_of_affairs | This FE identifies the purpose for which an Agent intentionally affects a Patient. | |
| Reason [Reason] Semantic Type State_of_affairs | A state of affairs that the Agent is responding to in performing the action. | |
| Time [Time] Semantic Type Time | This FE identifies the time when the Agent intentionally affects the Patient. | |
Inherits From: Intentionally_act, Transitive_action
Is Inherited By: Attaching, Cause_to_experience, Education_teaching, Gathering_up, Manipulation, Rewards_and_punishments, Soaking, Using
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Created by infinity on Mon Sep 24 13:23:58 CEST 2001