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Agentive Role

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

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Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
agent
plural
Agentive Roles
possessive
Agentive Role's
pluralpossessive
Agentive Roles'