Delahunty and Garvey
Basic clause pattern 7: intransitive Location and Goal clauses
Sentences like (134a and b) respectively represent an entity as being in a
Location and an entity moving to a Goal (which, of course, is a Location to
or toward which something moves or is moved):
(134)a. The king was in his counting house.
b. The king went to the council chamber.
We can represent these functionally as:
(135) Subject Verb Head Location/GoalThe Location and Goal roles can be represented either as a PP (as in (134a,b)
or as an AdvP, as in:
(136)a. The King is away (on business).
b. The King has gone away.
So they can be represented formally as:
(137)a. NP AUX [VPV {PP/AdvP}]
We can represent these VPs by the trees:
(137)b. VP (137)c. VP
V PP V AdvP
Basic clause pattern 8: transitive Location and Goal clauses
Sentences like (138) represent someone or something moving an entity to or
toward a Goal (italicized):
(138) Oscar put his bicycle in the laundry room/away.We can represent these functionally as:
(139) Subject Verb Head Direct Object Location/GoalAnd formally as: