Semantic representation of events: building a semantic primes component

This paper describes a system of semantic primes necessary for the large-scale semantic representation of event types, encoded as verbal predicates The system of semantic primes is compiled via mapping modeling elements of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), the Semantic Minimum – Dictionary of Bulgarian (SMD), and the Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) The so developed system of semantic primes is a user-defined extension to the metalanguage, adopted in the Unified Eventity Representation (UER), a graphical formalism, introducing the object-oriented design to linguistic semantics.