Thinking in Objects

This paper describes a component-driven population of a language resource consisting of semantically interpreted verb-centred structures in a cross-lingual setting. The overall infrastructure is provided by the Unified Eventity Representation (UER) --- a cognitive theoretical approach to verbal semantics and a graphical formalism, based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The verb predicates are modeled by eventity frames which contain the eventities' components: static modeling elements representing the characteristics of participants and the relations between them; dynamic modeling elements describing the behaviour of participants and their interactions.