Possessive + destination

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Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses: Annotation Guidelines

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Possessive + destination #35

Closed nschneid closed 4 years ago

nschneid commented 4 years ago

E.g. "your destination is on the right"

"Destination" refers to a role in an otherwise implicit travel event. Theme~>Gestalt?

(related to #27)

nschneid commented 4 years ago

my hometown: Gestalt (no implication of motion)
my birthplace: Gestalt (compound is headed by "place")
my birth: Theme
my alma mater: Org~>Gestalt (former institution)
my destination: Theme~>Gestalt (destination implies motion)
my travels are going well: definitely Theme~>Gestalt (event nominalization)

nschneid commented 4 years ago

For motion events I am wondering about the line between Theme~>Gestalt and Agent~>Gestalt.

With "destination", there is clearly no requirement that the moving entity is volitional (the package's destination).

We can also talk about "the package's journey"—does that personify it? "The package's travels" sounds a bit odd; maybe the noun "travels" prefers agentive travelers.

The corpus currently has Agent~>Gestalt for "my trip". "The package's trip" is possible, but maybe personification?