SELECTACTOR: Find actor expression
In MoLE: Modeling Language Evolution

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Select best expression for actor/undergoer/verb participant in the event to be described

1	SELECTACTOR(speakerID, situation, verb = NULL)

`speakerID`	Pointer to speaker agent
`situation`	Situation in which event to be described is situated
`verb`	Pointer to verb lexeme used in the utterance to be formulated (if present already)

Verb is relevant because of collostruction frequencies: some agents are more likely to be mentioned given certain verbs (cf. CANDIDATEORDER). Works other way around for SELECTVERB.

A dataframe with the lexical representation of the agent/undergoer/verb.

Sander Lestrade

PROPOSITION

FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
situation[situation$target==1,]
SELECTACTOR(1, situation)
SELECTVERB(1, situation)
if(!is.na(situation[situation$target==1,]$U1)){
	SELECTUNDERGOER(1, situation)
}