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function assignment When the lemmas selected to express the message are given their roles in the sentence. Carried out during functional processing as part of message formulation.
Example:E.g. in the sentence the cat hunted the mouse, the AGENT {cat} is assigned the job of grammatical subject, and the PATIENT {mouse} is set up to be the grammatical object.
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