the giving 
&gt; &gt;activity in which the other objects are participants (except the time
&gt; &gt;which gives the temporal location of the activity).
&gt; 
&gt; Indeed, it is important to recognize the event of giving as
&gt; a distinct entity, but Peirce (and I) would claim that verbs
&gt; represent entities just as clearly as nouns.  The transformation
&gt; that Pat used in this example is the same one that I use for
&gt; translating English sentences to conceptual graphs.  I use the
&gt; same kind of "