| A Killer or Cause causes the death of the Victim. | |
| John DROWNED Martha. | |
| Cause [] | An inanimate entity or process that causes the death of the Victim. | |
| The rockslide KILLED nearly half of the climbers. | ||
| Instrument [Instr] Semantic Type Physical_entity | The device used by the Killer to bring about the death of the Victim. | |
| It's difficult to SUICIDE with only a pocketknife. | ||
| Killer [Kill] | The person or sentient entity that causes the death of theVictim. | |
| Means [] Semantic Type State_of_affairs | The method or action that the Killer or Cause performs resulting in the death of the Victim. | |
| The flood EXTERMINATED the rats by cutting off access to food. | ||
| Victim [] Semantic Type Sentient | The living entity that dies as a result of the killing. | |
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| Beneficiary [ben] | This extra-thematic FE applies to participants that derive a benefit from the occurrence of the event specified by the target predicate. | |
| Circumstances [] | Circumstances describe the state of the world (at a particular time and place) which is specifically independent of the event itself and any of its participants. | |
| Degree [] Semantic Type Degree | The Degree appears with adjectives to describe the killing potential of an object or with nouns to describe how widespread the killing is. | |
| The Nazis engaged in mass GENOCIDE. | ||
| Depictive [Dep] | The state of the Killer or Victim during the killing. | |
| Explanation [] | The Explanation denotes a proposition from which the main clause (headed by the target) logically follows. | |
| Manner [Man] Semantic Type Manner | Any description of the event which is not covered by more specific FEs, including force (hard, softly), secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may indicate salient characteristics of an Killer that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully). | |
| KILL them quietly. | ||
| A true professional , he BEHEADED his victims with unhurried expertise, a credit to his calling. | ||
| A gunman SLAUGHTERED six people in cold blood because he had been evicted. | ||
| Period_of_iterations [] | The length of time from when the event denoted by the target began to be repeated to when it stopped. | |
| Place [Loc] Semantic Type Locative_relation | The location where the death took place. | |
| Apparently there were two MURDERS in Atherton in one week. | ||
| Purpose [Purp] Semantic Type State_of_affairs | The state of affairs that the Killer is trying to bring about by killing. | |
| It's simple: he KILLED her to get the inheritance. | ||
| Reason [] Semantic Type State_of_affairs | The preexisting state of affairs that the Killer is responding to. | |
| She DROWNED him for lying. | ||
| Result [] | The state of the Victim that results from being killed. (Normally this is somewhat redundant.) | |
| Two men ... SMOTHERED her to death. | ||
| Time [] Semantic Type Time | The point or period of time within which the Victim is killed. | |
| There is no evidence that the royal family was KILLED during the destruction at this site. | ||
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Created by infinity on Wed Mar 19 16:20:05 CET 2003