'V around n' - Construction 5
| Name: | the crowd around construction |
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| Description: | People move towards the centre of a circle to surround something. |
| Verbs: | cluster, crowd, flock, gather, throng |
| Example: | …the students and teachers ignored the novelist and crowded around the poet. (BNC) |
| Membership: | literal position; with movement; with centre; towards centre |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Location change.
Roles: NP1: Mover-physical; NP2: Location
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