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Attribute Construction (Attr: Adj)

Name Attribute Construction (Attr: Adj)
Semantic function of cxn An ÆFFECTOR assigns an ATTRIBUTE to an 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 AdjP
Example She called the idea stupid.
Collo-profile
account  assume  beat  believe  consider  discover  dream  find  guarantee  judge  label  lay  mark  pass  present  show  think  worry  
Sources for collo-profile Valency Dictionary of English, Patternbank
Borderline cases buy sell (something cheap)
Cxn with same formal pattern Resultative Construction (Attr: Adj) (The wind blew the door open.)
General cxn-type Active-3-Argument-Structure Construction
Construction family Attribute Constructions
Annotators/Date TRH/03/21