'V on n' - Construction 3

Name: the deliberate on construction
Description: A person thinks about a topic.
Verbs: brood, cogitate, deliberate, dwell, meditate, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate
Example: There's no point deliberating on whether it should have happened or not. (BNC)
Membership: focus ''on'; person on focus; cognition
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Cognition. Roles: NP1: Cognizer; NP2: Phenomenon
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