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Superconcept: Action
» Subevent: Leave
Component Semantics:
- Disperse
- Definition: change location of several objects from the same Place
- Required slot: object
- Restriction: at least 2 Tangible-Entity
- Required slot: subevent
- Restriction: forall objects o there is a
Leave whose object is o,
whose agent is also the object
and whose origin is the origin of
Disperse
- Required slot: origin
- Restriction: (exactly one) Place
- Restriction: is-at-of original location of all objects
- Blocked slot: destination
- Comment: there is no single destination
- Blocked slot: path
- Comment: there is no single path
- Primary slot: agent
- Restriction: each object is its own agent which causes its own
location to change.
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: disperse#2, disperse#4
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: break_up#1, dispel#2, dissipate#1, dissipate#2, scatter#1, scatter#2, spread_out#6
Disperse is a type of Action
in with multiple objects moving from a (single)
origin:Place slot. The origin slot
is required but need not be specified, in which case there should be
a new Place created that represents the origin of the
objects.
Furthermore, there is no single Place where the movement terminates
or passes through.
Other Senses:
- disperse2
- Definition: to cause to break up, make division
- Transitivity: transitive/intransitive
- disperse3
- Definition: to spread or distribute from a fixed or constant source, move in different directions
- Transitivity: transitive/intransitive
- disperse4
- Definition: to make public
- Transitivity: transitive
Reference: WordNet1.6
- WNdisperse#1
- Equivalent: disperse3
- WNdisperse#2
- Equivalent: disperse2
- WNdisperse#3
- Equivalent: disperse2
- WNdisperse#4
- Equivalent: disperse3
- WNdisperse#5
- Equivalent: disperse4