Funding

A Supplier gives funds to a Recipient to fulfill a need or purpose (Imposed_purpose) of the Recipient. The University funded Paige so that she could complete her doctorate. Often, the Imposed_purpose appears as a direct object of the target verb instead of the Recipient. With these, the Imposed_purpose can either be metonymically linked to some Recipient, in which case the Recipient FE is marked as DNI: Investors financed the software start-up.DNI or it can explicitly encompass the Recipient, in which case the Recipient part is annotated on a second FE layer: Lobbyists backed the senator's campaign for president. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the senator's