'V n with n' - Construction 21
| Name: | the temper something with something construction |
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| Description: | A person or an entity adds one abstract entity to another, with a negative or positive result. |
| Verbs: | cover, fill, lace, lard, load, overlay, overload, suffuse, surround, sweeten, temper, hedge about, pad out |
| Example: | I urge the court to temper justice with mercy ... (enTenTen20) |
| Membership: | transfer 'with'; action; figurative |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Causation.
Roles: NP1: Cause; NP2: Affected; prep + NP3: Result
Field: Equivalence. Roles: NP1: Causer; NP2: Carrier; NP3: Attribute Field: Change. Roles: NP1: Agent; NP2: Affected; NP3: Means |