Proto-Agent Semantic Role
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A Proto-Agent Semantic Role is a Semantic Role for some meaning of Agency.
References
- Martha Palmer, http://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/LexicalSemanticsII.ppt
- Volitional involvement in event or state
- Sentience (and/or perception)
- Causing an event or change of state in another participant
- Movement (relative to position of another participant)
- (exists independently of event named)
- *may be discourse pragmatic
- EAGLES Interest Group http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES96/rep2/node8.html
- A participant which the meaning of the verb specifies as doing or causing something, possibly intentionally.
- Examples: subjects of kill, eat, hit, smash, kick, watch.
- A participant which the meaning of the verb specifies as doing or causing something, possibly intentionally.