Cause to experience "V n to n" construction

Form

NP
Cause
Verb
NP
Patient
to
NP
Situation

Examples

Cause [The military tribunal]
had
Verb condemned
Patient [six other officers]
to to
Situation [life imprisonment.]
Cause [The advent of the train]
almost
Verb doomed
Patient [the breed]
to to
Situation extinction.

Meaning

A Cause is responsible for a Patient experiencing a Situation, typically a detrimental one.

Roles

Cause
A fact, person, or thing that is responsible for the Situation experienced by the Patient, either deliberately or not.
Patient
The person or thing that is made to experience the Situation.
Situation
A state or set of circumstances that the Cause causes the Patient to be in, often to their detriment.

Frames

Inherits from

Sub-constructions

Lexical items ( Verb slot)

Lexical items without a frame: condemn An X-ray later condemned me to six months away from this crazy pastime. doom The advent of the train almost doomed the breed to extinction. sentence The magistrates sentenced Graham to a total of 160 hours community service. subject The press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack.

Phraseological constructions

"put n to death"
Here we still put murderers to death.