Correspondences between syntactic constituents and semantic elements Syntactic Semantic Noun phrase Argument Verb phrase Predicate Adjective phrase One-place predicate Prepositional phrase Downgraded predication Relative clause Downgraded qualifying predication Adverb,adverbial Downgraded modifying phrase or clause predicationSyntactic Semantic Noun phrase Argument Verb phrase Predicate Adjective phrase One-place predicate Prepositional phrase Downgraded predication Relative clause Downgraded qualifying predication Adverb, adverbial Downgraded modifying phrase or clause predication Correspondences between syntactic constituents and semantic elements