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Attribute Construction (Attr: to-INF)

Name Attribute Construction (Attr: to-INF)
Semantic function of cxn ÆFFECTOR assigns an ATTRIBUTE to an ÆFFECTED-ATTRIBUTEE.
Slots Slot 1: argument Slot 2: predicate Slot 3: argument Slot 4: argument
Semantic role of slots ÆFFECTOR ÆFFECTED-ATTRIBUTEE ATTRIBUTE

Syntactic function  

 potential subject unit in predicate unit in predicate
Syntactic form NP V NP to-INF
Example She pronounced him to be the winner.
Collo-profile
accept  assume  calculate  conceive  consider  discover  estimate  find  imagine  judge  mean  pronounce  prove  show  take  
Sources for collo-profile Valency Dictionary of English, Patternbank
Cxn with same formal pattern Ditransitive Construction (Obj: to-INF) (She asked him to come to the meeting.)
Resultative Construction (Attr: to-INF) (They appointed her to run the campaign.)
General cxn-type Active-3-Argument-Structure Construction
Construction family Attribute Constructions
Annotators/Date TRH/03/21F