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Name The-early-bird-catches-the-worm Construction
Semantic function of cxn An ÆFFECTOR acts early enough to gain an advantage over others.
Semantic role of slots ÆFFECTOR ÆFFECTED

Syntactic function  

potential subject unit in predicate
Syntactic form
NP
Theearlybird
etc.
V
gets
catches
eats
etc.
NP
theworm
etc.