Category
page 1Thematic roles
agent
in semantics, thematic relation that refers to the cause or initiator (often intentional) of an event
thematic relation
role that an entity plays with respect to a specific action or state
patient
grammar: participant of a situation upon whom an action is carried out
theta role
in generative grammar, a formal device for representing syntactic argument structure—the number and type of noun phrases—required syntactically by a particular verb