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TO-Judge-Action Construction

Name TO-Judge-Action Construction
Semantic function of cxn A JUDGE evaluates an ATTRIBUTEE-ATTRIBUTE relationship in terms of its justification.
Slots Slot 1: argument Slot 2: predicate Slot 3: argument Slot 4: argument
Semantic role of slots ATTRIBUTEE JUDGE ATTRIBUTE

Syntactic function  

potential subject unit in predicate unit in predicate
Syntactic form NP V PPto to-INF
Example She seemed to him to be the ideal person for the job.
Collo-profile
appear  seem  
Sources for collo-profile Valency Dictionary of English, Patternbank
Cxn with same formal pattern TO-Recipient-Action Construction (She suggested to him to join her in the project.)
Annotators/Date TRH/03/21F