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The document discusses sentence and proposition, semantic roles, and valency. It defines a sentence as a syntactic analysis and a proposition as a semantic analysis. A proposition contains a predicate and arguments, while a sentence adds focus. Semantic roles describe the underlying relationship between a participant and the main verb. Common roles include agent, patient, theme, and goal. Valency refers to the number of arguments a verb takes, with intransitive verbs having one argument and transitive verbs
- Author
- Agus Sayyid
- Language
- EN