OCCUR Occurrence verbs
Definition
Verbs denoting events/changes: become, happen, change, grow, develop, etc.
Detection Rules
mfte
cql[word={words} & pos="VB.*"]
Word list (79 items)
arise
arisen
arises
arising
arose
became
become
becomes
becoming
change
changed
changes
changing
develop
developed
developing
develops
die
died
dies
disappear
disappeared
disappearing
disappears
dying
emerge
emerged
emerges
emerging
fall
fallen
falling
falls
fell
flow
flowed
flowing
flows
grew
grow
growing
grown
grows
happen
happened
happening
happens
increase
increased
increases
increasing
last
lasted
lasting
lasts
occur
occurred
occurring
occurs
rise
risen
rises
rising
rose
sank
shine
shined
shines
shining
shone
sink
sinking
sinks
slip
slipped
slipping
slips
sunk
sunken
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
Couldn’t have happened at a busier time!
Source: le_foll_2024
The cricket lasts all day.
Source: le_foll_2024
Sources
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version