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part to eyes. A tree showing part of the type hierarchy presupposed in these descriptions
is found in Fig. 3.8 on page 125.
Semantic restrictions are also expressed in the form of predications on roles, with
the attribute \Restr", in cases in which it seems inappropriate to call the restriction a type;
the following predicates are used in these frame descriptions:
a ects(X,Y) Situation X a ects Y.
authority(X) Person X is in a position of authority, possesses special knowledge, etc.
familiar(X,Y) Person X is familiar with Y.
partOf(X,Y) X is a part of Y|not necessarily a proper subpart.
temporalOverlap(X,Y) Events X and Y overlap in time.
Other Attributes
In some cases, valence descriptions of the standard type in Construction Grammar
link the roles to syntactic patterns in which they can be expressed. If no such valence
description appears, the assumption is that there are no syntactic restrictions speci c to
the sense in question, and the syntaxofthesentence will be built up by uni cation with
more general frames and constructions. The frames for senses of see themselves also have
the attribute \Category" (Cat) with value \V", and the attribute \Lexeme" (Lexm) with
value see, i.e., they are lexically speci c frames.
The standard construction grammar thematic roles stimulus and content (based
on thematic roles) are used in some places, even though the names are not entirely felicitous
in this context. Stimulus is used to refer to the physical objects or actions that are
perceived, while content refers to the mental interpretation resulting from the perception 9 .
Typographic Conventions
Frames are displayed as attribute-value matrices with the attributes down the left
side and the values down the right. Atomic values are shown in boldface; values which are
themselves AVMs are in large square brackets. Names of roles are capitalized, names of
9 These correspond roughly to the base space and the belief space, respectively, in the mental spaces
analysis in Section 3.2.