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Sentences Homer preens. Homer loves his blanket. Homer eats. Homer eats crap. The fat bald guy eats crap. The fat bald guy eats vast quantities of arteryhardening crap. The fat bald guy throws the dog a bone. English 306A; Harris 1 Verbs Homer preens. Homer loves his blanket. Homer eats. Homer eats crap. The fat bald guy eats crap. The fat bald guy eats vast quantities of arteryhardening crap. The fat bald guy throws the dog a bone . English 306A; Harris 2 Arguments Homer preens. V1 Homer loves his blanket. V2 Homer eats. V1 Homer eats crap. V2 The fat bald guy eats crap. V2 The fat bald guy eats vast quantities of arteryV2 hardening crap. The fat bald guy throws the dog a bone. V3 English 306A; Harris 3 Sentences Homer is sexy. Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy. Homer is in the kitchen. Homer goes to the bar. The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper. Marge bakes a cake for Maggie. Bart throws a bone to the dog English 306A; Harris 4 Verbs Homer is sexy. Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy. Homer is in the kitchen. Homer goes to the bar. The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper. Marge bakes a cake for Maggie. Bart throws a bone to the dog. English 306A; Harris 5 Arguments Homer is sexy. VCOP Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy. VCOP Homer is in the kitchen. VCOP Homer goes to the bar. VCOMP The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper. V2 Marge bakes a cake for Maggie. VT-COMP Bart throws a bone at the dog. VT-C0MP English 306A; Harris 6 Semantic roles Patient Essive Homer is sexy. Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy. Homer is in the kitchen. Homer goes to the bar. The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper. Marge bakes a cake for Maggie. Bart throws a bone at the dog. English 306A; Harris 7 Semantic roles Homer Patientis sexy. Essive Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy. Homer is in the kitchen. Homer goes to the bar. The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper. Marge bakes a cake for Maggie. Bart throws a bone at the dog. English 306A; Harris 8 Semantic roles Homer is sexy. Homer operations guy. Patientis a nuclear-plant Essive Homer is in the kitchen. Homer goes to the bar. The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper. Marge bakes a cake for Maggie. Bart throws a bone at the dog. English 306A; Harris 9 Semantic roles Homer is sexy. Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy. Agent is in the Goal Homer kitchen. Homer goes to the bar. The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper. Marge bakes a cake for Maggie. Bart throws a bone at the dog. English 306A; Harris 10 Semantic roles Homer is sexy. Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy. Homer is in the kitchen. Patient Possessor Homer goes to the bar. The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper. Marge bakes a cake for Maggie. Bart throws a bone at the dog. English 306A; Harris 11 Semantic roles Homer is sexy. Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy. Homer is in the kitchen. Homer goes to the bar. Agent Patient Beneficiary The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper. Marge bakes a cake for Maggie. Bart throws a bone at the dog. English 306A; Harris 12 Semantic roles Homer is sexy. Homer is a nuclear-plant operations guy. Homer is in the kitchen. Homer goes to the bar. The collar belongs to Santa’s Little Helper. Agent Marge bakesPatient a cake forGoal Maggie. Bart throws a bone at the dog. English 306A; Harris 13 Semantic Roles Role Definition Agent The entity that performs the action Patient The entity undergoing the action; the object of the experience; the sponsor of a state Experiencer The entity that experiences the state Beneficiary The entity benefits something from the event Essive Anything predicated by the (main) verb “to be” Possessor The entity who possesses something. Source The starting point for a movement Goal The end point for a movement Path The route over which movement happens Time The time an event occurs Location The place an event happens English 306A; Harris 14 Event schemata Being Happening Doing Experiencing Having Moving Transferring English 306A; Harris 15 Semantic Roles Role Event Schemata Agent DOING, MOVING, TRANSFERRING Patient BEING, HAPPENING, DOING, EXPERIENCING, HAVING, MOVING, TRANSFERRING Experiencer EXPERIENCING Beneficiary TRANSFERRING Essive BEING Possessor HAVING, TRANSFERRING Source Goal MOVING, TRANSFERRING Path Time Location ALL English 306A; Harris 16 Simplex event schemata Being Happening Doing Experiencing Having Subject NP ≈ Patient Complement ≈ Essive E.g.s Homer is large. Homer is a safety inspector. VCOP Homer is in the shower. English 306A; Harris 17 Simplex event schemata Being Happening Doing Experiencing Having Subject NP ≈ Patient E.g.s Homer fell asleep. Homer ages. Homer stumbled. English 306A; Harris V1 18 Simplex event schemata Being Happening Doing Experiencing Having Subject NP ≈ Agent E.g.s Homer eats. Homer yells. English 306A; Harris V1 19 Simplex event schemata Being Happening Doing Experiencing Having Subject NP ≈ Agent (Object NP ≈ Patient) E.g.s Homer eats. Homer yells. Homer catches Bart. Homer kissed Marge. English 306A; Harris V1 V2 20 Simplex event schemata Being Happening Doing Experiencing Having Subject NP ≈ Experiencer (Object NP ≈ Patient) E.g.s Homer laments. V1 Homer loathes Flanders. Homer saw Chief Wiggum. V2 English 306A; Harris 21 Simplex event schemata Being Happening Doing Experiencing Having Subject NP ≈ Experiencer (Object NP ≈ Patient) E.g.s Homer laments. V1 Homer loathes Flanders. Homer saw Chief Wiggum. V2 (Contrast: Homer watched Chief Wiggum.) English 306A; Harris 22 Simplex event schemata Being Happening Doing Experiencing Having Subject NP ≈ Possessor Object NP ≈ Patient E.g.s Homer has three kids. Homer has a keen sense of smell. Homer has chicken pox. V2 Homer owns a dog. Homer possesses a hatbox. English 306A; Harris 23 Complex event schemata MovingHappening Transferring Simplex occurrence (Happening, Having, or Doing) with explicit reference to motion. Start = Source End = Goal Route = Path English 306A; Harris 24 Complex event schemata MovingHappening Transferring Simplex occurrence (Happening, Having, or Doing) with explicit reference to motion. Happening + Source/Path/Goal Doing + Source/Path/Goal English 306A; Harris 25 Complex event schemata MovingHappening Transferring Happening + Source/Path/Goal Subj NP ≈ Patient Complements ≈ Source, Path, Goal English 306A; Harris 26 Complex event schemata MovingHappening Transferring Happening + Source/Path/Goal E.g.s Homer staggered home. Homer staggered home from Apu’s. Homer staggered home, down the sidewalk from Apu’s. English 306A; Harris 27 Complex event schemata MovingHappening Transferring Happening + Source/Path/Goal Homer staggered home, down the sidewalk from Apu’s. Patient Goal Path English 306A; Harris Source 28 Complex event schemata MovingDoing Transferring Doing + Source/Path/Goal E.g.s Homer climbed out of the window. Homer climbed up Mount Splashmor from base camp to the summit. Homer ran screaming across the back yard to Flander’s. English 306A; Harris 29 Complex event schemata MovingDoing Transferring Doing + Source/Path/Goal Homer ran screaming across the back yard to Flander’s. Agent Path English 306A; Harris Goal 30 Complex event schemata Moving Transferring Having + Moving MovingHappening MovingDoing A complex schema already Happening or Doing + Source/Path/Goal English 306A; Harris 31 Complex event schemata Moving Transferring Having + MovingHappening E.g. V2 Bart found a wallet. VT-COMP Homer won $1.76 from the Springfield Lottery Corporation. English 306A; Harris 32 Complex event schemata Moving Transferring Having + MovingHappening VT-COMP E.g. Homer won $1.76 from the SLC. Having: Possessor Happening: Beneficiary Moving: Goal English 306A; Harris Patient Patient Patient Possessor Patient Source 33 Complex event schemata Moving Transferring Having + MovingDoing E.g. V2 Homer sold the dog. Homer sold the dog to Moe. VT-COMP English 306A; Harris 34 Complex event schemata Moving Transferring Having + MovingDoing E.g. Homer sold the dog. Having: Possessor Moving: Source Doing: Agent English 306A; Harris Patient Patient Patient 35 Complex event schemata Moving Transferring Having + MovingDoing E.g. Homer sold the dog to Moe. Having: Possessor Moving: Source Doing: Agent English 306A; Harris Patient Possessor Patient Goal Patient Beneficiary 36 Complex event schemata Moving Transferring Having + MovingDoing E.g. Homer sold Moe the dog. Having: Possessor Possessor Patient Moving: Source Doing: Agent English 306A; Harris Goal Patient Beneficiary Patient 37 Transferring V3 VT-COMP Homer sold Moe the dog. Homer sold the dog to Moe. Subject I-Object D-Object Possessor Possessor Patient Source Goal Patient Agent Beneficiary Patient Subject Possessor Source Agent D-Object Comp Patient Possessor Patient Goal Patient Beneficiary S S VP VP PP NP N NP V NP N Det N Homer sold Moe the dog NP NP NP N V Det N P N Homer sold the dog to Moe English 306A; Harris 38 Syntax The sentence the verb and its arguments the subject and the predicate phrase Event schemata simplex complex (simplex + relocation) semantic roles English 306A; Harris 39