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Attribute Construction (Attr: V-ing)

Name Attribute Construction (Attr: V-ing)
Semantic function of cxn An ÆFFECTED 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 V-ing
Example She caught him searching the room.
Collo-profile
catch  find  imagine  keep  show  waste  
Sources for collo-profile Valency Dictionary of English, Patternbank
Borderline cases forbid get knock prevent save send set stop
General cxn-type Active-3-Argument-Structure Construction
Construction family Attribute Constructions
Annotators/Date TRH/03/21