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semantic role - (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause

linguistics - the scientific study of language

grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties

affected role, patient role, patient - the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

agentive role, agent - the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

benefactive role, beneficiary - the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

instrumental role, instrument - the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process

locative, locative role - the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb

recipient role, recipient - the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

resultant role, result - the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause

temporal, temporal role - the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb

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The optional use of morphological case

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The closer to the right-hand end of the circumstantial hierarchy the semantic role of P (with respect to L) is, the more preferable is Solution II, that is, the use of an optional SemA-slot to describe the choice of P.

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The same is also true for the oblique semantic role of Location, whether marked by a coverb or not.

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This has led to the identification of the semantic role Force, typically played by entities such as natural forces and emotions.

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As an example of problematic semantic role assignment, consider the following:

"Now no way can I stray": Interpreting Syntactic and Semantic Role Ambiguity in Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse with Non-native Performers and Readers

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Non-structural Case Marking in Tibeto-Burman and Artificial Languages

Dasa Farkas, Matea Filko, Vanja Stefanec, Danijela Merkler and Marko Tadic presented their talk, Towards Automatic Semantic Role Labeling in Croatian.

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This method does not conduct the detailed analysis of the whole sentence semantics, but some sentence in semantic role labeling for a given verb, these components are endowed with certain semantic meaning, and as part of the framework of the verb.

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