Hindi PropBank Annotation Guidelines December ... - Verbs Index

action 'feed' (hence the "GOL" part of the PB label is appropriate). Also notice that even
though the child is performing the act of eating, he/she does not initiate the eating by
him/herself but is a causee, he/she is made to eat by a causer. Thus we notice that the
PB label Arg0_GOL is used only in presence of another label ArgA used to represent
the causer in the sentence. For further details, refer to section 5 below.
(14) [ ARGA sIwA ne] [AyA se] [ ARG0_GOL bacce ko] [KAnA] KilvAyA
Sita Erg maid by child to food feed.CAUS.Pst
‘Sita had the maid feed the child food’
The label Arg0_GOL is also used in cases where the sentence has an experiencer
subject. In Hindi, the experiencer subject can be found in sentences like (15) below.
Notice that the subject always appears with the Dative case marker -ko. In these
constructions, the subject does not have agent-like properties, because it is not
controlling the action, but nevertheless the act expressed by the verb is an internally
caused reaction to some external/ internal factor. In such cases, the subject
experiences or feels some physical state such as a fever, hunger, cold etc. or an
emotional state such as anger, embarrassment etc., hence the term ‘experiencer
subject’ construction. For these cases, the framefile indicates the ‘non-prototypicality’ of
the agents by specifying that the Arg0_GOL is an ‘experiencer’ in the description of the
role in the framefile.
(15) a. [ ARG0_GOL muJ-ko] [TaMDa] lagI
I-Dat cold feel.Pst
'I felt cold (it felt cold to me).'
b. [ ARG0_GOL muJ-ko] [buKAra] huA
I-Dat hunger happen.Pst
'I got fever (the fever happened to me).'
c. [ ARG0_GOL muJ-ko] [gussA] AyA
I-Dat anger come.Pst
'I got angry (the anger came to me).'
d. [ ARG0_GOL muJ-ko] [Sarma] AyI
I-Dat shyness come.Pst
'I felt embarrassed (the embarrassment came to me).'
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