MoLE (version 1.0.1)

AGENTFIRST: Actor argument first

Description

Reorganizes constituents of an utterance such that actor is put in sentence-initial position. Only applies if corresponding word-order generalization has been made.

Usage

AGENTFIRST(proposition)

Arguments

proposition

Proposition of which the constituents are reordered.

Value

a proposition, i.e. a list:

external

representation of the external argument

internal

representation of the internal argument, if identified

verb

representation of the action argument

target

target event to be described

Details

Applies to intransitives too, which may not be desirable.

References

Matthew S. Dryer. 2013. Order of Subject, Object and Verb. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://wals.info/chapter/81, Accessed on 2017-05-24.)

See Also

GENERALIZE

Examples

# NOT RUN {
FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
(proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation))
AGENTFIRST(proposition)
# }