'V n as adj' - Construction 1
| Name: | the regard something as quality construction |
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| Description: | A person thinks that someone or something has a specific quality. |
| Verbs: | accept, conceive, consider, construe, interpret, perceive, rate, read, recognise, regard, remember, see, view |
| Example: | [The officials] regard such an agreement as ideal… (BNC) |
| Membership: | cognition; perceiver as subject |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Cognition.
Roles: NP1: Cognizer; NP2 + adj: Phenomenon
Field: Equivalence. Roles: NP1: Cognizer; NP2: Carrier; adj: Attribute |