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Superconcept: Move
Component Semantics:
- Fall
- Definition: change location downward
- Required slot: object
- Inherited from: Move
- Restriction: a Tangible-Entity
- Restriction: location changes
- Required slot: direction
- Restriction: down
- Primary slot: destination
- Inherited from: Move
- Restriction: Place
- Restriction: = final location of object
- Blocked slot: agent
- Inherited from: Move
- Comment: Fall is purely intransitive, though there can be an
agent of the Let-Fall concept that
causes a Fall
- Primary slot: origin
- Restriction: Place
- Restriction: = original location of object
- Primary slot: path
- Restriction: Place
- Restriction: = transient location of object
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: fall#1
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: --
Fall is a specialization of the Move
component with a required direction:down slot. Since Fall is
purely intransitive, there can be no agent causing the Fall.
There can be other Events that cause the Fall, such as
Let-Fall, which can take an agent.