'V n from n' - Construction 15

Name: the learn something from a source construction
Description: A person obtains information from a source.
Verbs: deduce, draw, extrapolate, glean, infer, learn
Example: Governments and airlines had failed to learn lessons from the incident. (BNC)
Membership: figurative 'from'; cognition
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Cognition. Roles: NP1: Cognizer; NP2: Phenomenon; NP3: Source
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