Functors of Valency Frames

Source: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/vallex/2.0/publ/06-techrep.pdf

[edit] Inner participants

• ACT (actor): Peter read a letter.
• ADDR (addressee): Peter gave Mary a book.
• PAT (patient): I saw him.
• EFF (effect): We made her the secretary.
• ORIG (origin): She made a cake from apples.

[edit] Quasi-valency complementations

• DIFF (difference): The value of shares has risen by 100%.
• OBST(obstacle): The boy stumbled over a stump.
• INTT (intent): He came there to look for Jane.

[edit] Free modifications

• ACMP (accompaniment): Mother came with her children.
• AIM (aim): John came to a bakery for a piece of bread.
• BEN (benefactive): She made this for her children.
• CAUS (cause): She did so since they wanted it.
• COMPL (complement): They painted the wall blue.
• CRIT (criterion): Peter has to do it exactly according to directions.
• DIR1 (direction-from): He went from the forest to the village.
• DIR2 (direction-through): He went through the forest to the village.
• DIR3 (direction-to): He went from the forest to the village.
• DPHR (dependent part of a phraseme): Peter talked horse again.
• EXT (extent): The temperatures reached an all time high.
• HER (heritage): He named the new villa after his wife.
• LOC (locative): He was born in Italy.
• MANN (manner): They did it quickly.
• MEANS (means): He wrote it by hand.
• RCMP (recompense): She bought a new shirt for 25 $.
• REG (regard): With regard to George she asked his teacher for advice.
• SUBS (substitution): He went to the theater instead of his ill sister.
• TFHL (temporal-for-how-long): They interrupted their studies for a year.
• TFRWH (temporal-from-when): His bad reminiscences came from this period.
• THL (temporal-how-long ): We were there for three weeks.
• TOWH (temporal-to when): He put it over to next Tuesday.
• TSIN (temporal-since-when): I have not heard about him since that time.
• TTIL (temporal-till-when): It will last till 5 o’clock.
• TWHEN (temporal-when): He will come tomorrow.