aux:caus: causative auxiliary
The aux:caus relation is used to link the infinitive verb (i.e. the governor) and the causative verb in a causative construction.
In French, only the lemma faire is used as a causative auxiliary.
The syntactical subject of the sentence (i.e. the causer) receives a nsubj:caus link.
The initial agent of the action described by the sentence is demoted and will either be annotated with an iobj:agent, an obj:agent or an obl:agent relation.
Marie a fait asseoir Pierre . \n Marie made Pierre sit.
aux:caus(asseoir,fait)
nsubj:caus(asseoir,Marie)
obj:agent(asseoir-4,Pierre-5)
N.B.: For more details about the analysis of causatives see this page.
aux:caus in other languages: [fr] [hy] [hyw] [xcl]