ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1 we identified the situation type (STATE, EVENT, ACTION), especially with the verb word in a sentence; though, in a sense, a situation is expressed by a sentence as a whole. However, the verb may be regarded as the central element of a sentence, determining the character of the situation that is being talked about. The verb may also be regarded as determining what other elements may or must accompany it in the sentence. A verb (or a particular meaning or sense of a verb) is not only representative of a situation type, it creates a situation or ‘scene’ which contains persons who do things, persons or things that have something done to them, and so on.
