Agent

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Agent is a semantic role denoting a participant that is actively involved in a situation (generally described by an action verb).

Examples

In (i)-(iii) Miguel is the Agent.

(i) Miguel chased Gianni. (ii) Miguel gave Pedro some water. (iii) Pedro was hit by Miguel.

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