Roles from Conceptual Structures

• Sowa's (1984) Conceptual Structures text

• Two dozen or so thematic relations

  • action-specific
    • agent (AGNT) destination (DEST) initiator (INIT)
    • material (MATR) object (OBJ) recipient (RCPT)
  • other
    • instrument (INST) location(LOC) point-in-time (PTIM)

• 37 conceptual relations in all

  • See http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~tomohara/thematic-roles/sowa-conceptual-relations.html