'V n with n' - Construction 15
| Name: | the flood something with something construction |
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| Description: | A person fills an entity with something, often to an undesirable extent. |
| Verbs: | choke, clutter, cram, encumber, fill, flood, load, overload, pack, pile, saturate, soak, stack, stuff, suffuse, clutter up, fill up, load up |
| Example: | [They] flooded the country with 76 billion opioid pain pills ... (enTenTen20) |
| Membership: | transfer 'with'; action; literal; location |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Causation. Roles: NP1: Cause; NP2: Affected; prep + NP3: Result
Field: Equivalence. Roles: NP1: Causer; NP2: Carrier; NP3: Attribute |