'V to n' - Construction 31
| Name: | the appeal to someone construction |
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| Description: | An entity or situation affects someone. The NP after to indicates the affected person. |
| Verbs: | appeal, get, happen, matter |
| Example: | ...both traditional and modern jazz also appealed to the teenager. (BNC) |
| Membership: | recipient 'to'; attitude |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Cognition.
Roles: NP1: Phenomenon; NP2: Emoter
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