'V n of n' - Construction 1
| Name: | the deprive someone of something construction |
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| Description: | A person or situation takes something valuable from someone. The NP following 'of' indicates what is taken. |
| Verbs: | cheat, defraud, denude, deprive, dispossess, divest, plunder, rob, starve, strip |
| Example: | [Interviewing the children at home] would have deprived them of the privacy they needed. (BNC) |
| Membership: | action |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Causation.
Roles: NP1: Cause; NP2: Affected; verb + NP3: Result
Field: Possession transfer. Roles: NP1: Receipient; NP2: Possession; NP3: Donor |