'V n adj' - Construction 16

Name: the capture someone alive construction
Description: A person finds a person in a particular state.
Verbs: capture, catch, find
Example: …most of the soldiers had been captured alive… (BNC)
Membership:
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Equivalence. Roles: NP1: Actor; NP2: Carrier; Adj: Attribute
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