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Superconcept: Action
Component Semantics:
- Transfer
- Definition: change of possession of an object
- Required slot: object
- Restriction: possessed-by changes
- Primary slot: agent
- Restriction: causes object's possessed-by to change
- Primary slot: donor
- Restriction: possessed object before Transfer
- Primary slot: recipient
- Restriction: possesses object after Transfer
- Primary slot: instrument
- Restriction: medium of transfer of object
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: transfer#5
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets:
Core Senses:
- transfer1
- Definition: change of possession of an object
- Required slot: object
- Restriction: an Object
- Restriction: possessor changes
- Primary slot: agent
- Restriction: causes object's possessor to change
- Primary slot: donor
- Restriction: = possessed object before Transfer
- Primary slot: recipient
- Restriction: = possesses object after Transfer
- Primary slot: instrument
- Restriction: = medium of transfer of object
Other Senses:
- transfer2
- Definition: move
- Transitivity: transitive/intransitive
- transfer3
- Definition: change medium
- Transitivity: transitive/intransitive
- transfer4
- Definition: transmit
- Transitivity: transitive
The Transfer verbs seem to be topologically analogous to the
Move verbs with the following slot mappings:
Move:agent ~ Transfer:agent
Move:object ~ Transfer:object
Move:origin ~ Transfer:donor
Move:destination ~ Transfer:recipient
Move:path ~ Transfer:instrument
But wait, that's not all. Transfer verbs often imply change of location
of the object transferred and are therefore often lumped in with
Move verbs. What's needed is probably a slightly
looser coupling.
Reference: Levin
Levin has a whole chapter (13) on Verbs of Change of Possession.
These include Give verbs, Contribute verbs
(Transfer goes here), Verbs of Future Having,
Verbs of Providing, Verbs of Obtaining,
Verbs of Exchange and Berry verbs (as in
"pick berries"), as well as several subclasses of these.
Levin also includes Transfer in with the change of location
verbs (Send verbs in particular).
Reference: COBUILD
- COBUILDtransfer1
- Equivalent: transfer2
- COBUILDtransfer2
- Equivalent: transfer1
- COBUILDtransfer3
- Equivalent: transfer3
- COBUILDtransfer4
- Equivalent: transfer2
- COBUILDtransfer5
- Equivalent: transfer2
- Comment: abstract
- COBUILDtransfer6
- Equivalent: transfer2
- Comment: abstract
- COBUILDtransfer7
- Equivalent: transfer2
Reference: LDOCE
- LDOCEtransfer1
- Equivalent: transfer2
- LDOCEtransfer2
- Equivalent: transfer3
- LDOCEtransfer3
- Equivalent: transfer3
- LDOCEtransfer4
- Equivalent: transfer1
Reference: NODE
- NODEtransfer1
- Equivalents: transfer1, transfer2
- NODEtransfer1.1
- Equivalent: transfer2
- NODEtransfer1.2
- Equivalent: transfer2
- NODEtransfer1.3
- Equivalent: transfer3
- NODEtransfer1.4
- Equivalent: transfer1
- NODEtransfer1.5
- Equivalent: transfer3
- NODEtransfer1.6
- Equivalent: transfer3
Reference: WordNet1.6
- WNtransfer#1
- Equivalent: transfer2
- WNtransfer#2
- Equivalent: transfer2
- WNtransfer#3
- Equivalent: transfer2
- WNtransfer#4
- Equivalent: transfer2
- WNtransfer#5
- Equivalent: transfer1
- WNtransfer#6
- Equivalent: transfer3
- WNtransfer#7
- Equivalent: transfer4
- WNtransfer#8
- Equivalent: transfer2
- WNtransfer#9
- Equivalent: transfer2