'V over n' - Construction 6

Name: the deliberate over construction
Description: A person thinks deeply about something.
Verbs: brood, deliberate, muse, ponder, ruminate
Example: She watched his face as he deliberated over his next words. (enTenTen20)
Membership: figurative 'over'; cognition
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Cognition. Roles: NP1: Cognizer; NP2: Phenomenon
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