Action/Event Equivalent (AEE)

The Action/Event Equivalent Relation (AEE) connects always one Action to one Concept, and it serves to translate between the world of verbs and the world of nouns. For instance, A "to baptize" would have the AEE C "baptism".

Since any specific Event which happens to be a baptism should have the Classification C "baptism", all specific "baptism" Events and all Statements with the Action "to baptize" used in the action slot can be queried together in the database, as long as they have the AEE and CLA properly set.

Just as importantly, AEE is a way for verbs to acquire coherent Superclasses. While the Superclass Relation is allowed for Actions, most verbs do not have manifest Superclasses. For instance, A "to baptize" does not have any Superclass such as *"to ritualize", while C "baptism" can acquire quite a straightforward Superclass tree (e.g. C "Christian ritual", which in turn will have the Superclass C "ritual"). These Superclasses propagated to Actions from Concepts through AEE are shown under Actions in InkVisitor, thereby helping coders to decide whether an Action fits the specific context. They are of course vital for analytical queries which aim at retrieving, for instance, all rituals, be they expressed through verbs (i.e., through an Action) or nouns (i.e., as Events).